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FINAL REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE 
WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK 

Religion among American Men. (Ready.) 

The Missionary Outlook in the Light of the War. (Ready.) 

The Church and Industrial Reconstruction. 

The Teaching Work of the Church in the Light of the 
Present Situation. 

Principles of Christian Unity in the Light of the War. 



THE 

MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

IN THE LIGHT OF 

THE WAR 



THE COMMITTEE ON THE WAR 
AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK 



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EDITORIAL PREFACE 

I. The Committee on the War and the Religious Out- 
look and Its Work 

This volume is one in a series of studies that is being 
brought out by the Committee on the War and the Reli- 
gious Outlook. The Committee was constituted, while 
the war was still in progress, by the joint action of the 
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America 
and the General War-Time Commission of the Churches 
and was an expression of the conviction that the war 
had laid upon the Churches the duty of the most thorough 
self-examination. The Committee consisted of a small 
group of representative men and women of the various 
Protestant Churches, appointed "to consider the state of 
religion as revealed or affected by the war, with special 
reference to the duty and opportunity of the Churches, 
and to prepare these findings for submission to the 
Churches." While created through the initiative of the 
Federal Council and the General War-Time Commission, 
it was given entire freedom to act according to its own 
judgment and was empowered to add to its number. 

The Committee was originally organized with Presi- 
dent Henry Churchill King as its Chairman and Profes- 
sor William Adams Brown as Vice-Chairman. On ac- 
count of prolonged absence in Europe, President King 
was compelled to resign the chairmanship in the spring 
of 1919 and Professor Brown became the Chairman of 
the group, with President King and Rev. Charles W. 
Gilkey as Vice-Chairmen. Rev. Samuel McCrea Cavert 
was chosen to serve as Secretary of the Committee and 
Rev. Angus Dun as Associate Secretary. 



vi EDITORIAL PREFACE 

When the Committee began its work four main lines 
of inquiry suggested themselves as of chief importance: 

1. What effect has the war had upon the personal 
religious experience? How far has it reenforced, how 
far altered the existing type of religious life and thought ? 

2. What effect has the war had upon the organized 
Christian Church ? What changes, if any, are called for 
in its spirit and activities? 

3. What effect has the war had upon Christian teach- 
ing? What changes, if any, are called for in the content 
or method of the Church's teaching ? 

4. What effect has the war had upon the duty of the 
Church with reference to social problems of the time? 
What reconstructions are needed to make our social 
order more Christian? 

As the Committee proceeded with these inquiries, 
several distinct fields of investigation emerged and led 
the Committee to adopt the plan of bringing out a group 
of reports instead of a single volume. The first of these 
studies, which has already appeared, was entitled "Reli- 
gion among American Men: as Revealed by a Study of 
Conditions in the Army," and dealt with the lessons that 
it was felt had been learned from the experience of 
the men in the army. The present volume is concerned 
with the Missionary Outlook in the Light of the War. 
Other forthcoming reports will deal with the Church 
and Industrial Reconstruction, the Teaching Work of 
the Church in the Light of the Present Situation, and 
Principles of Christian Unity in the Light of the War. 

Earlier preliminary publications of the Committee con- 
sisted of a comprehensive bibliography on the War and 
Religion, and a series of pamphlets under the general 
heading "The Religious Outlook," of which the following 
numbers have thus far appeared : 

"The War and the Religious Outlook," by Dr. Robert 
E. Speer; "Christian Principles Essential to a New 



EDITORIAL PREFACE vii 

World Order," by President W. H. P. Faunce; "The 
Church's Message to the Nation," by Professor Harry 
Emerson Fosdick; "Christian Principles and Industrial 
Reconstruction," by Bishop Francis J. McConnell ; "The 
Church and Religious Education," by President William 
Douglas Mackenzie; "The New Home Mission of the 
Church," by Dr. William P. Shriver ; "Christian Aspects 
of Economic Reconstruction," by Professor Herbert N. 
Shenton ; "The War and the Woman Point of View," by 
Rhoda E. McCulloch. Other numbers in the series of 
pamphlets are also under consideration. 

Our special thanks are due to Association Press, which 
has assumed responsibility for issuing the publications 
of the Committee. 

11. The Present Volume 

The report on The Missionary Outlook in the Light of 
the War has been prepared by a special sub-committee 
with Dr. Robert E. Speer as its Chairman and Rev. 
Samuel McCrea Cavert as its Secretary. It is entirely 
to this special group that the Committee on the War and 
the Religious Outlook is indebted for this timely and 
significant study. 

This sub-committee held three conferences for the dis- 
cussion of problems and the formulation of its point of 
view, one of them being of the nature of a two days' 
retreat (September 12 and 13, 1919) at Wallace Lodge, 
Yonkers. In one or more of these conferences the fol- 
lowing have participated : 

Rev. Brenton T. Badley of the Board of Foreign Mis- 
sions of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Rev. F. W. 
Bible of China; Professor O. E. Brown of Vanderbilt 
Theological Seminary ; Rev. Samuel McCrea Cavert, Sec- 
retary of the Committee on the War and the Religious 
Outlook; Rev. William I. Chamberlain of the Board of 
Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in America; 



viii EDITORIAL PREFACE 

Miss Eliza P. Cobb of the Woman's Board of Foreign 
Missions of the Reformed Church in America; Rev. 
A. E. Cory of the Interchurch World Movement of 
North America; Rev. Stephen J. Corey of the Foreign 
Christian Missionary Society; Mrs. E. C. Cronk of the 
Interchurch World Movement of North America; Rev. 
Sydney J. L. Crouch of the Sudan ; Miss Alice M. Davi- 
son of the Federation of Women's Boards of Foreign 
Missions; Rev. C. S. Deming of Korea; Tyler Dennett 
of the Interchurch World Movement of North America ; 
Rev. Thomas S. Donohugh of the Board of Foreign 
Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church ; Mrs. Kath- 
erine W. Eddy of the National Board of the Young 
Women's Christian Associations; Galen M. Fisher of 
Japan ; Rev. Arthur R. Gray of the Domestic and Foreign 
Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church; 
Rev. H. D. Griswold of India; Rev. Sidney L. Gulick 
of the Federal Council's Commission on Relations with 
the Orient; Mrs. Ida W. Harrison of the Christian 
Woman's Board of Missions; Rev. Robert A. Hume of 
India; Professor Robert E. Hume of The Union Theo- 
logical Seminary ; Charles D. Hurrey of the International 
Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations ; Rev. 
Samuel G. Inman of the Committee on Cooperation in 
Latin America ; E. C. Jenkins of the International Com- 
mittee of Young Men's Christian Associations; E. C. 
Jones of China; Rev. H. K. W. Kumm of the United 
Sudan Mission; Professor Frank A. Lombard of Japan; 
Rev. Henry W. Luce of China ; Mrs. William A. Mont- 
gomery of the Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mis- 
sion Society; Mrs. Henry W. Peabody of the Woman's 
American Baptist Foreign Mission Society; Rev. F. M. 
Potter of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Re- 
formed Church in America; Dr. E. C. Richardson of 
Princeton University; Rev. Frank K. Sanders of the 
Board of Missionary Preparation; Rev. W. G. Sheila- 



EDITORIAL PREFACE ix 

bear of Malaysia; Rev. G. A. Sowash of North Africa; 
Dr. Robert E. Speer of the Presbyterian Board of For- 
eign Missions; Rev. James M. Springer of Central Af- 
rica ; Rev. James D. Taylor of Africa ; Fennell P. Turner 
of the Committee on Reference and Counsel of the For- 
eign Missions Conference; Rev. Charles R. Watson of 
the Board of Trustees of Cairo University ; W. Reginald 
Wheeler of China; Rev. John E. Williams of China. 

In addition to those who were present at conferences 
the following have contributed to the study : 

Rev. W. B. Anderson of the Board of Foreign Mis- 
sions of the United Presbyterian Church; Canon W. H. 
T. Gairdner of Egypt; Rev. James S. Gale of Korea; 
Professor Cleland B. McAfee of McCormick Theological 
Seminary; Professor Duncan B. Macdonald of Hartford 
Theological Seminary; President Charles T. Paul of the 
College of Missions; Dr. W. E. Weld of India; Rev. 
Samuel M. Zwemer of Arabia. 

To still others the Committee is grateful for their co- 
operation by replies to questionnaires. 

In the Table of Contents the names of those who have 
been chiefly responsible for the various parts of the re- 
port are set beneath the titles of the chapters. It should 
be understood, however, that in no case is a single indi- 
vidual wholly responsible for any section. Many of the 
chapters, especially those dealing with the particular 
fields, rest on data gathered from wide correspondence 
with missionaries on furlough in this country. In all 
cases the general subject matter has been submitted to the 
sub-committee for discussion, criticism, and suggestions. 

For the final form of the volume an editorial commit- 
tee consisting of the Secretary, in consultation with Dr. 
Frank K. Sanders, is responsible. They have been given 
freedom to make whatever revision seemed wise in order 
to secure systematic treatment and continuity of thought. 
The unity of the report is largely due to their thorough- 
going work. 



EDITORIAL PREFACE 



Committee on the War and the Religious 
Outlook 



Mrs. Fred S. Bennett 

Rev. William Adams Brown 

Miss Mabel Cratty 

George W. Coleman 

Pres. W. H. P. Faunce 

Prof. Harry Emerson Fosdick 

Rev. Charles W. Gilkey 

Frederick Harris 

Prof. W. E. Hocking 

Rev. Samuel G. Inman 

Prof. Charles M. Jacobs 

Pres. Henry Churchill King 

Bishop Walter R. Lambuth 

Bishop Francis J. McConnell 



Rev. Charles S. Macfarland 
Pres. William D. Mackenzie 
Dean Shailer Mathews 
Dr. John R. Mott 
Rev. Frank Mason North 
Dr. Ernest C. Richardson 
Very Rev. Howard C. Robbins 
Rt. Rev. Logan H. Roots 
Dr. Robert E. Speer 
Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes 
Rev. James I. Vance 
Rev. Henry B. Washburn 
Pres. Mary E. Woolley 
Prof. Henry B. Wright 



Rev, William Adams Brown, Chairman 

Pres. Henry Churchill King, Vice-Chairman 

Rev. Charles W. Gilkey, Vice-Chairman 

Rev. Samuel McCrea Cavert, Secretary 
105 East 22d Street, New York, N. Y. 



CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Editorial Preface . v 

Introduction xv 

Robert E. Speer. 



PART I 

The Enhanced Significance and Urgency of Foreign 
Missions in the Light of the War 

chapter 

I. Foreign Missions as a Preparation during the 
Past Century for the New International- 
ism 3 

O. E. Brown, S. M. Cavert, C. T. Paul. 

II. What Foreign Missions Can Contribute to 

AN Effective League of Nations ... 17 

Cleland B. McAfee. 

III. Foreign Missions and Democracy in Non- 

Christian Lands 27 

Tyler Dennett. 

IV. The Enlarged Outlook of Foreign Missions . 38 

Samuel McCrea Cavert. 



PART II 

The Effect of the War on the Religious Outlook in 
Various Lands 

V. The Effect of the War on the Vitality of 

THE NoN- Christian Religions . . . 51 
Robert E. Hume. 
VI. The War and New Influences among Orien- 
tal Women 67 

Mrs. Henry W. Peabody. 
Mrs. Katherine W. Eddy. 



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CONTENTS 



CHAPTER 

VII. The War and the Missionary Outlook in 

India 

Hervey D. Griswold. 

VIII. The War and the Missionary Outlook in 

China 

W. Reginald Wheeler. 
John E. Williams. 

IX. The War and the Missionary Outlook in 

Japan 

Galen M. Fisher. 

X. The War and the Missionary Outlook in 

Korea 

James S. Gale. 

XI. The War and the Missionary Outlook in 

Africa 

James D. Taylor. 

!XII. The War and the Missionary Outlook in 
Moslem Lands 

A. The New Situation between Islam and 
Christianity . . . . . . 

Duncan B. Macdonald. 

B. The Effect of the War on Certain Mo- 
hammedan Lands 

1. Mohammedanism in Egypt 

W. H, T. Gairdner. 

2. Mohammedanism in Arabia 

Samuel M. Zwemer. 

3. Mohammedanism in India 
Hervey D. Griswold. 

4. Mohammedanism in Malaysia 
W. G, Shellabear. 

5. Mohammedanism in China 

Samuel M. Zwemer. 

6. Mohammedanism in Central and South 
Africa ....... 

John M. Springer. 

XIII. The War and the Missionary Outlook in 

Latin America 

Samuel G. Inman. 



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126 

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138 

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158 
161 
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168 

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CONTENTS xiii 

PART III 

Missionary Principles and Policies in the Light 
of the War 

CHAPTER PAGE 

XIV. The Effect of War on Missionary Activity: 

An Historical Study 199 

William I. Chamberlain. 

XV. Lessons from the War as to Propaganda for 

Missions 210 

Stephen J. Corey. 

XVI. New Demands Regarding the Character and 

Training of Missionaries .... 221 
Frank K. Sanders. 

XVII. Reconsideration of Missionary Methods in 

THE Light of the New Situation . . . 234 
W. B. Anderson. 

XVIII. The War and the Literary Aspects of Mis- 
sions 249 

E. C. Richardson. 
Edward C. Jenkins. 

XIX. Missions and American Business and Profes- 
sional Men Abroad 256 

Tyler Dennett. 

XX. The Bearing of Economics and Business on 

Foreign Missions 263 

W. E. Weld. 

XXI, Missionary Agencies in Relation to Students 

from Other Lands 273 

Charles D. Hurrey. 

XXII. The Foreign PoLiaES of the United States 

and the Success of Foreign Missions . . 280 
Sidney L. Gulick. 

XXIII. The Relation of Foreign Missions to Inter- 
national Politics 292 

Charles R. Watson. 

Appendix I. Synopsis of Contents . . 305 

Samuel McCrea Cavert. 

Appendix II. Bibliography .... 323 
Missionary Research Library. 



INTRODUCTION 

One of the most striking things about America's par- 
ticipation in the World War was the way in which the 
great ideas and principles of the missionary enterprise 
were taken over and declared by the nation as its moral 
aims in the conflict. The war as we ideally conceived 
it was waged with five clear moral aims : the establishing 
of permanent peace, the safeguarding of democracy and 
human freedom, the appHcation of the law of righteous- 
ness to nations as well as to individuals, service to hu- 
manity, the securing of a social order based on brother- 
hood. When we have said these things what have we 
done but put into political terms, in connection with the 
great struggle, the aims and ideals and purposes for which 
many men have been living all their lives, which have 
actuated the missionary enterprise, and which underlie 
it today? 

The missionary movement has been in the world as an 
instrumentality of peace and international good will. 
Wherever it has gone, it has erased racial prejudice and 
bitterness, the great root of international conflict and 
struggle. It has helped men to understand one another. 
Missionaries have been a conciliatory influence again and 
again, and have allayed hostility which diplomats and 
traders have aroused. The Jiji Shimpo, one of the lead- 
ing newspapers in Japan, spoke of this in advocating the 
sending of Buddhist missionaries to Korea. "Japanese 
visiting Korea will be chiefly bent upon the pursuit of 
gain and will not be disposed to pay much attention to the 
sentiments and customs of the Koreans or to allow their 
spirit to be controlled by any consideration of the country 



xvi INTRODUCTION 

or the people. That was the case with foreigners in the 
early days of Japan's intercourse with them, and there 
can be no doubt that many serious troubles would have 
occurred had not the Christian missionary acted as a 
counterbalancing influence. The Christian missionary 
not only showed to the Japanese the altruistic side of the 
Occidental character, but also by his teaching and his 
preaching imparted a new and attractive aspect to inter- 
course which would otherwise have seemed masterful and 
repellent. The Japanese cannot thank the Christian mis- 
sionary too much for the admirable leaven that he intro- 
duced into their relations with foreigners, nor can they 
do better than follow the example that he has set, in their 
own intercourse with the Koreans." For a hundred years 
the missionary enterprise has been an agency of tran- 
quillity and peace over the entire world, getting men ac- 
quainted with one another, showing the unselfishness that 
lies behind much that seems to be and often is so purely 
selfish. 

It has been a great agency of righteousness. As the 
years have gone by, it alone has represented in many non- 
Christian lands the inner moral character of the Western 
world. By our political agencies and activities we have 
forced great wrongs upon the non-Christian peoples — 
commercial exploitation, the liquor traffic, the slave trade 
in Africa and the South Sea Islands, and the opium 
traffic in China. Against these things the one element of 
the West that has been a clear protest has been the mis- 
sionary enterprise. Year after year in those lands it has 
joined with what wholesome moral sentiment existed 
among the people in a death struggle against the great 
iniquities that Western civilization had spread over the 
world. 

It has been and is a great instrumentality of human 
service. It has scattered tens of thousands of men and 
women over many lands, teaching schools in city and 
country, in town and village. It has built its hospitals by 



INTRODUCTION xvii 

the thousand. It has sent its medical missionaries to 
deal every year with millions of sick and diseased peo- 
ples in Asia and Africa. It has been the one great, 
continuing, unselfish agency of unquestioning, loving, hu- 
man service throughout the world, dealing not with emer- 
gency needs of famine and flood and pestilence alone, but, 
year in and year out, serving all human need and seeking 
to introduce into human society the creative and healing 
influence of Christ. "Whatever you may be told to the 
contrary," said Sir Bartle Frere, formerly Governor of 
Bombay, "the teaching of Christianity among 160,000,000 
of civilized, industrious Hindus and Mohammedans in 
India is effecting changes, moral, social and political, 
which for extent and rapidity of effect are far more ex- 
traordinary than anything that you or your fathers have 
witnessed in modern Europe." 

Foreign missions has been a great agency of human 
unity and concord. It, at least, has believed and acted 
upon the belief that all men belong to one family. It has 
laughed at racial discords and prejudices. It h^s made 
itself unpopular with many representatives of the West- 
ern nations who have gone into the non-Christian world, 
because it has not been willing to foster racial distrust, 
because it has insisted on bridging the divisions which 
separated men of different bloods and different nationali- 
ties. We are talking now about building the new world 
after the war. But it would be hopeless if we had not 
already begun it. We are talking about some form of 
international organization. It may need to be very sim- 
ple, with few and primitive functions, but it must come. 
And it can come only as, first, we sustain in men's hearts 
a faith in its possibility ; as, second, we devise the instru- 
mentalities necessary to it and make them effective; as, 
third, we build up a spirit that will support it. Across 
the world for a hundred years the missionary enterprise 
has been the proclamation that this day must come, and 
that some such international body of relationships as this, 



xviii INTRODUCTION 

based on right principles, must be set up among the 
nations of the world. 

It would not be hard to go on analyzing further what 
the missionary enterprise has been doing. It has been 
doing peacefully, constructively, unselfishly, quietly, for 
a hundred years the things that, in a great outburst of 
titanic and necessarily destructive struggle, we tried to 
do by war. I say it again, that one of the most significant 
things of the day is to see how the great ideals and pur- 
poses of the missionary enterprise, that have been the 
commonplaces of some men's lives, have been gathered 
up as a great moral discovery and made the legitimate 
moral aims of the nation in the great conflict in which we 
have been engaged. 

And now that the war is done the question looks at us 
squarely. Do we mean all that we said and fought for? 
If we were right then are we not bound to go right on now 
and do by life in peace what we were ready to do by 
death in war? The need for achieving the things we 
fought for is heie today all over the world. The mission- 
ary enterprise is the honest effort to achieve them. 

And we need the missionary enterprise now, strong, 
living, aggressive, because we require, more than we have 
ever required them in the past, every possible agency of 
international good will and interpretation. In the early 
years of the war our Government sent word to the consuls, 
in China especially, that Americans ought not to come 
home; that if ever they were needed there, they were 
needed then, that they might correctly represent what the 
moral purposes of America were, and that by their good 
will and friendliness they might be true ambassadors of 
our spirit. We need not less today, but more than ever, 
the shuttles of sympathy and service that fly to and fro 
across the chasms of race. The misunderstandings of 
the world are a tragic thing. We little realize how deep 
and terrible they are; the innumerable millions of men 
on the other side of the world whose minds are unknown 



INTRODUCTION xix 

to us and to whom what we are thinking is unknown, in 
whose thought there has never entered the conviction of 
our unselfish interest in the whole human family, and 
of our desire not to injure but to benefit both ourselves 
and with us all mankind. As never before in the history 
of the world, we require every possible agency of inter- 
pretation, of international fellowship and brotherhood to 
be thrown across the chasms that separate the races and 
nations of men. 

The great negative energies of destruction such as war 
releases can never achieve the things that have to be 
done in the world. Such work has to be done by great 
principles, by living ideals, by the Spirit of God. Mere 
mechanisms, the thunder of guns, the massing of bodies 
of men never can do it. They can build walls against 
the onset of wrong; they cannot replace it. We have to 
let loose creative and constructive spiritual powers if 
that is to be done, and there is no creative and construc- 
tive power the equal of that which Christ released. In 
Christ alone today is the power of saving men and of 
redeeming society. To give Him to the world is to do the 
work the world needs more than it needs anything else. 
No man can do better with his life today or accomplish 
more for the world than by going out to acquaint men 
with Christ and to lead all nations to obey and follow 
Christ as Saviour and Lord. 

For four years the world has poured out life and 
wealth without limit. It was a struggle which ought never 
to have been. But, once precipitated, there was but one 
thing to do, and that was for an outraged world to go 
through with it at whatever cost and to spare nothing 
until the threatened calamity was removed and the liber- 
ties of the world secured. And now the struggle is past. 
Shall the sacrifices made for war be discontinued or shall 
we be ready to do for peace and for the coming of the 
kingdom of righteousness all that we did for war and for 
the prevention of what we believed to be the threatened 



XX INTRODUCTION 

destruction of the freedom of mankind ? Were not those 
sacrifices rational only as we now complete and perfect 
them in their perpetual consecration to the establishment 
of the reign of Christ in human life ? 

The pages of this report, we believe, will establish all 
that has been said in this introduction, and more. It is 
an earnest attempt to survey the facts of the situation 
which we today confront and to draw out the just and 
necessary conclusions. It is not an attempt to find or to 
set forth any new gospel. There is one gospel only, the 
Gospel of Jesus Christ as the one Saviour and Lord of 
mankind. But there is a new demonstration of human- 
ity's need of this Gospel and of the adequacy of the Gos- 
pel to meet that need. The evidence and the conclusions 
which this report enforces are here set forth by competent 
men with restraint and conviction, and the Committee has 
sought, through several conferences and through the care- 
ful work of an editorial sub-committee, to give to the 
report a real unity and the face of an associated judg- 
ment. 



PART I 

THE ENHANCED SIGNIFICANCE AND 

URGENCY OF FOREIGN MISSIONS 

IN THE LIGHT OF THE WAR 



CHAPTER I 

FOREIGN MISSIONS AS A PREPARATION 

DURING THE PAST CENTURY FOR THE 

NEW INTERNATIONALISM 

For more than a century foreign missions has been 
quietly laying the foundations of what we now call the 
new internationalism. When the Christian pioneers a 
hundred years ago initiated the modern missionary pro- 
gram and took the first step in spanning the distance be- 
tween the East and the West with the spirit of brother- 
hood, it was a prophecy of the new day that was to 
come in international affairs. And the history of foreign 
missions ever since has been a record of influences that 
have been breaking down racial barriers, interpreting the 
East and the West to each other, revealing the idealistic 
side of Western life, incarnating the spirit of service and 
good will, developing in non-Christian lands a leadership 
sympathetic to democracy, promoting friendly contacts 
between widely separated peoples, and in other ways 
hastening the coming of a higher type of international 
relations. 

But we cannot intelligently discuss the way in which 
foreign missions has been a preparation for the new 
internationalism except with the background of what 
it has contributed to national developments in the East, 
for true internationalism necessarily presupposes na- 
tional units among which relations are to be effected. 
The strength and value of any internationalism ultimately 
depend upon the richness of the national groups that 
comprise it. The individual nation is related to the 



4 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

international order as the individual person is related 
to the social order. Society cannot prosper at the ex- 
pense of the individual. Neither can we have an ideal 
internationalism at the price of impoverished and depre- 
ciated nationalism. A social order that suppresses indi- 
vidual self-expression and denies individual opportunity 
for self-realization is cultivating a suicidal principle. An 
international ideal that would suppress national genius 
and withhold national opportunity for bringing its people 
and resources to their best would be hindering, not pro- 
moting, world life and progress. We need, therefore, at 
the outset to remind ourselves of the contribution that 
foreign missions has made to the rising spirit of national- 
ism in the East. 

I. Foreign Missions and Nationalism 

It is a fact of no small significance that the develop- 
ment of modern missions is synchronous with the rise 
of modern nationalism in the West. The outstanding 
political feature of the nineteenth century was unques- 
tionably the growth of independent, self-governing na- 
tions. "The history of the past century," said Professor 
Reinsch, writing in 1900, "has been the history of the 
arrangement of national boundaries, the development of 
national ambitions, the formation of national policies, the 
definition of national responsibilities, the sharpened dis- 
tinction of national characteristics, the realization and 
resolute prosecution of national destinies." Between 
1815 and 1900 almost every war in Europe represented 
either an attempt by a subject nationality to establish its 
unity and independence or a clash of already independent 
nations in the interests of expansion and defense. With 
this period of national awakening the development of 
modern missions is contemporaneous. 

It is particularly worthy of note that the beginnings 
of the modern missionary advance date from the period 



THE NEW INTERNATIONALISM 5 

of national conflict and development ushered in by the 
American War of Independence, the French Revolution, 
and the end of the Napoleonic wars. It is furthermore 
significant that the greatest missionary expansion has 
taken place during the second half of the nineteenth 
century and the first two decades of the twentieth 
— ^the period when Western nationalism was assuming 
its intenser forms, with the unification of Italy, the con- 
solidation of Austria-Hungary, the rise of Germany 
after the Franco-Prussian War, the dogged efforts of 
France at self -recovery, the conflict in the Balkans, the 
growth of British imperialism, and the development of 
the United States after the Civil War. 

It was inevitable that missionaries, though professing 
a higher allegiance than that to any earthly state and 
though deliberately seeking to transcend all racial preju- 
dices and national limitations, should nevertheless convey 
to the people to whom they went something of their own 
patriotic spirit and nationalistic aspiration. Certain it is 
that missions, especially through the dissemination of 
literature and the vast range of its educational institu- 
tions and activities, has been a great factor in acquainting 
Eastern peoples with the national history, policies, and 
ideals of Western countries. By abundant examples it 
could be shown how these contacts established by mis- 
sions have resulted in the awakening of new national 
ambitions in the non-Christian peoples, unconsciously 
arousing them to the formulation and prosecution of new 
national programs in which the assimilation of foreign 
elements has been combined with a revitalization of 
indigenous institutions and ideals. 

But the chief contribution of missions to the rise of 
national self-consciousness in the East lies on a deeper 
level than this. In addition to bringing to these peoples 
a knowledge of Western nationalism, the missionary 
brought also a gospel which proclaimed new life for the 
individual, asserted the worth of all men in the sight of 



6 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

God, kindled faith in the possibilities of men, and stimu- 
lated a sense of social responsibility. Such a message, 
brought by men who identified themselves with the inter- 
ests of the people to whom they came, could not help 
having an indirect effect upon national aspirations in 
many lands. The promotion of nationalism is, of course, 
no part of the missionaries* conscious work. The de- 
velopment of a worthy national life is, however, an 
inevitable by-product of the Christian message and the 
Christian character. 

There is hardly a country in the East where the name 
of some missionary is not linked up with the modern 
development of the nation. The name of Verbeck is 
readily recognized as high in the list of the "makers of 
the New Japan." Alexander Duff and that splendid 
galaxy of Christian educators who have given their lives 
to India go far toward explaining all that is best in the 
Indian aspiration for a new national life. "In much of 
what is taking place [in India] the missionary can see 
the seed of Christian ideals beginning to spring forth 
from the soil. Nationality, liberty, enlightenment, the 
raising of the multitude — all these are not strange words 
in Christian ears." As for China, a former American 
consul-general at Peking has pointed out that the handful 
of Chinese leaders who precipitated the revolution and 
brought new political hopes to a quarter of the world's 
population, the new patriots who have been trying to 
recast imperial China into a republican mould, were prac- 
tically all products of missionary teaching. Truly did 
Li Yuan Hung, ex-President of the Chinese Republic, 
say, "China would not be aroused today as it is were it 
not for the missionaries." The names of Morrison, Wil- 
liams, Martin, Allen, Richards, and others at once come 
to mind in vindication of this statement. The present 
political status of South Africa is explicable only in the 
light of what Moffat and Livingstone and Mackenzie have 
done in the Dark Continent. And these are but typical 



THE NEW INTERNATIONALISM 7 

of a far greater number who, through their missionary 
service, have built up educational programs for a people, 
developed industrial life, been counselors to national 
leaders, or in other ways contributed to the making of 
the new East. 

It has been no part of the missionary enterprise to dis- 
integrate this national consciousness. Rather it has 
tended to promote and to guide national ambitions to 
higher ends. The missionary has held before the nations 
— is holding before them today — ^the ideal of a Christian 
national life, insisting that it must be built on righteous- 
ness, and presenting Christianity as the power without 
which the highest nationhood cannot be realized. 

II. Foreign Missions and Internationalism 

It needs no prophet to foresee that as nationalism has 
been the keynote of the political history of the nineteenth 
century, so internationalism is to be the keynote of the 
history of the twentieth. This was evident before the 
World War and is still more unmistakable today. 

In the presence of this rising internationalism the sig- 
nificance of missions becomes magnified almost beyond 
the power of words to describe. The very existence of 
the foreign missionary movement is a living witness to 
the solidarity of the human race. Its objective is the 
realization of the Kingdom of God, embracing all peoples. 
Its passion to save and uplift goes out to man as man, 
not primarily to men as Chinese, Hindu, or African. 

In its spiritual gifts, its ethical demands on character, 
and its obligations of service, Christianity is a leveler 
not only of extreme individualism but also of self- 
centered nationalism. While ministering to the national 
group it points to a higher unity. It regards nations not 
as ends in themselves, but as potential constituents of a 
world-wide brotherhood. It has proclaimed the world 
over that "no man liveth unto himself" and that no nation 



8 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

liveth unto itself. The doctrine of the universal father- 
hood of God and the brotherhood of man proclaimed 
on every mission field has taught men to think in terms 
of that higher spiritual order where racial differences 
are harmoniously combined. Particularly significant is 
it that the good news of an all-embracing, super-racial 
Kingdom of God has been most widely made known 
during the past seventy years, the very period when all 
the countries of the world have been made near neigh- 
bors, drawn together by commerce, colonial expansion, 
travel, and multiplied means of intercourse. 

Of course, foreign missions has been by no means the 
only force that has been unconsciously working to bring 
about the internationalism of the present day. The im- 
portance of the economic factor, for example, has been 
tremendous. Unheard-of facilities for intercommunica- 
tion and transportation have made distant nations near 
neighbors, have brought isolated peoples into the current 
of the world's life, and have made, as it were, one market 
for the products of the world. In the whole economic 
sphere nations have become intertwined and interdepend- 
ent in a way undreamed of a century ago. 

But economic interests do not in themselves provide 
those creative forces that make for the kind of attitude 
and spirit essential to a family of free nations. Facilities 
for intercommunication may be abused as readily as 
rightfully used. It all depends upon whether there is a 
disposition toward cooperation or toward domination, 
whether there is the will-to-service or the will-to-power. 
Economic imperialism is as antagonistic to a true inter- 
nationalism as is political imperialism. If nations would 
only learn that the good of each lies in the good of all, 
mutual economic interdependence would be a powerful 
factor in binding the nations together ; but economic in- 
terests are still so largely conceived in a narrow and indi- 
vidualistic way that they stir up rivalries, jealousy, suspi- 
cion, ill will, and even war. In the commercial realm the 



THE NEW INTERNATIONALISM 9 

goal of each nation has too easily tended to become ex- 
ploitation of others, or at least selfish profit regardless 
of others' advantage, instead of mutual service and the 
common good. Social order and permanent peace will 
never come from the supremacy of the purely economic 
motive. They will come only from some source that 
touches the deep levels of the conscience and the heart. 

For the old internationalism, which aimed at the dom- 
ination of other nations by a super-nation or at a balance 
of power in the interest of an exclusive group, moral and 
spiritual elements were unnecessary. It needed only the 
machinery of shrewd diplomacy, jealous competition, se- 
crecy, deception, and war. But the new internationalism 
is an effort at, and a passion for, a social and moral order 
among the nations. Its goal is an organized society of 
free peoples living harmoniously and helpfully together. 
It needs machinery for cooperation and mutual service 
and has, therefore, finally to rest upon a foundation of 
friendship and good will. We are thus brought face to 
face with the vital necessity in world affairs for the mes- 
sage and work and spirit of Christian missions. 

There appeared in the New Republic last June a pro- 
foundly significant article by the Jewish author, Israel 
Zangwill, entitled "Converted Missionaries," significant 
because of its revelation of the impression made even 
upon a strongly prejudiced mind by the service of mis- 
sions to the cause of the new internationalism. The 
author tells in a semi-humorous vein of his ordering from 
a newsdealer a new publication called the International 
Review which was to deal with problems connected with 
the League of Nations, but receiving by mistake the In- 
ternational Review of Missions. Mr. Zangwill writes: 
"When a small boy solemnly delivered to my rural retreat 
an International Review of Missions, I was divided be- 
tween annoyance and amusement. To send me this — me 
of all persons in the world — ^to whom missionaries had 
been anathema since childhood; conceived as a sort of 



10 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

spiritual spiders in wait for the Jewish soul and spinning 
a wicked web of textual sophistry to entangle it ! . . . . 
Thus pondering I opened the Review of Missions and 
turned over its pages in ironic expectation of a record 
of ubiquitous futility. What was my pleasant disappoint- 
ment to find that it was as much concerned with the 
League of Nations as the magazine which it mistakenly 
replaced!" Mr. Zangwill then quotes from five articles 
in a single issue, all of which in one way or another dis- 
cuss the new international order that is demanded, and 
decides that "the missionaries have been converted to 
Christianity"! Mr. Zangwill does not, however, realize 
that this work on the part of the missionaries is no new 
thing, but has been going on for over a century. No 
doubt the international significance of their efforts has 
now come to consciousness in a new way, but their work 
has always rested on the assumption of the unity of the 
race and has always been in the direction of cooperative 
and friendly interracial relations. Most striking of all is 
Mr. Zangwill's own conclusion, "For a new world order 
there must be a burning missionary faith, an apostleship 
ready for all sacrifice." 

Let us consider in more detail some of the significant 
contributions that foreign missions has been making to 
the new internationalism : 

1. The Christian missionary movement has been the 
basis for the best there is in the confidence which the 
nations of the East and the West have in each other as 
moral, righteous, and dependable institutions. 

There is much, both in trade relations and in diplo- 
matic polity, that savors of self-interest and of disposi- 
tion to push advantage without restraint of principle, or 
honesty, or regard for others. We do not need to recount 
the more shameful aspects of international trade or di- 
plomacy. The slave traffic and the forcing of trade in 
opium upon an unwilling government, the trade in liquors 



THE NEW INTERNATIONALISM 11 

and drugs, the exploiting of the resources of tropical 
countries by servile forms of labor, the creation of 
spheres of influence, the building up of portentous arma- 
ments and programs of imperial expansion — ^the record 
is so humiliating that we need not be surprised if the 
nations of the East inferred that there was precious little 
passion for righteousness, or justice, or honor in the 
West. 

Against all this the missionary movement has been the 
one clear protest from the Western world. It has been 
a living assertion that there is idealism and altruism in 
what might otherwise be known as a materialistic world. 
It has revealed by flesh and blood that there is a spirit in 
the world that cares for men and women in even remote 
parts of the earth for their own human sake. It has 
been the one great corrective for the influence of the 
trader who has thought of other lands only in terms of 
raw materials or labor markets, and for the diplomat 
who has been concerned with them only for the sake of 
spheres of economic or political influence. The impact 
of the Christian representatives of the Western nations 
on the Eastern peoples has been absolutely essential to 
convincing them that a real spirit of fair play, justice, 
and good will is vitally at work in Western civilization, 

2. Foreign missions has been the greatest agency in 
the past century in breaking down racial barriers and 
interpreting the East and the West to each other. 

The missionary movement has actually created a nu- 
cleus of world brotherhood and international good will. 
The missionary himself has been a mediating personality. 
Coming from a Western nation, he has identified himself 
with the Hfe of the people to whom he has gone. He has 
not simply helped the national life — all his work has been 
in the direction of cementing friendly ties between his 
native land and the land of his adoption. So many illus- 
trations of remarkable missionaries who have been such 



12 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

mediating personalities leap to mind that one forbears 
to mention names. It may be boldly stated without fear 
of its being gainsaid that no other agency has done so 
much to build up ordinary human friendships across 
racial lines as the Christian missionary movement. Men 
of other skins were to the missionary not strange and 
suspicious folks, but comrades and brothers. Viscount 
Chinda, the former Japanese ambassador to the United 
States, summed it up when he said, "The Christian mis- 
sionaries to Japan contributed to the building of an un- 
seen bridge between East and West." Wellington Koo, 
Minister of the Chinese Republic to the United States, 
not long ago bore similar testimony in an address at the 
University of Chicago: "Nothing which individual 
Americans have done in China has more strongly im- 
pressed Chinese minds with the sincerity, the genuine- 
ness, the altruism of American friendship for China than 
this spirit of service and sacrifice .... demonstrated 
by American missionaries." 

One of the great factors in missionary work leading 
to mutual understanding has been the mission schools 
and colleges which have been scattered all over the world. 
They have served as centers of individual contacts that 
have gone far toward clearing away the barriers of mis- 
understanding and lack of appreciation which separated 
alien peoples. The educational work which the mission- 
ary has carried on has led also to the coming of thousands 
of students from the Orient and Latin America to the 
United States, with the result that men who were to be- 
come leaders in their own lands have learned to know 
us at first hand. 

In addition to the work which the missionary himself 
has done, he has prepared the way for the exchange of 
Christian visitors and lecturers between the East and 
West, who have been no small factor in the development 
of mutual understanding of each other's spirit and prob- 
lems. Charles Cuthbert Hall, Dr. Fairbairn, and Dr. 



THE NEW INTERNATIONALISM 13 

Moulton in India, Hamilton Wright Mabie and George 
W. Knox in Japan — these are typical of Western thinkers 
who have reached great audiences in the East and re- 
vealed to them something of the higher side of Western 
life. Eminent Christian leaders produced by the Chris- 
tian mission Churches have in turn come to the West. 
President Harada of Doshisha University, at Kyoto, 
Professor Inazo Nitobe of the Tokyo Imperial Univer- 
sity, Dr. Chang Poling of Tientsin, Dr. K. C. Chatter jee 
of the Punjab, Bishop V. S. Azariah of South India — 
these and others have helped us to understand and appre- 
ciate the genius and the potentialities of the lands they 
represented. 

Foreign missions has also been far-reaching in the 
direction of interracial understanding and good will 
through the agency of international organizations which 
it has directly or indirectly brought about and which have 
implanted the idea of international fellowship and co- 
operation in many minds. The World Missionary Con- 
ference at Edinburgh and the movements continuing its 
work have had an incalculable influence in unifying the 
forces of international life. The World's Student Chris- 
tian Federation has united sympathetically thousands of 
young men destined to become largely influential in de- 
termining the attitudes of their peoples. The Y. M. C. A. 
and the Y. W. C. A. are found in most of the large cities 
all over the world. In the United States alone there are 
as many as 167 boards or societies whose objective is the 
leavening of foreign lands with the Gospel that is the 
source of whatever is best in our own life. The North 
American boards invest more than $22,000,000 annually 
in Christianization and international good will. They 
make it possible for some 11,000 persons to spend them- 
selves in other lands than their own, carrying the message 
of new life for the individual, the nation, and the world, 
and tending to unite all lands in one loyal family of one 
Father God. 



14 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

3. Foreign missions is the one agency that has not 
only proclaimed but incarnated the spirit of human 
brotherhood and service. 

The missionary has been a Hving witness to the faith 
in brotherhood and the Hfe of self-giving service that he 
has preached. Around him have grown up all the great 
helpful philanthropic and friendly endeavors that have 
been made in the interest of the peoples of the Orient. 
Hospitals have sprung up wherever he has gone, in most 
cases the first hospitals that have ever been known in 
these lands. Orphanages and leper asylums have been 
established. When famine and flood and pestilence have 
wrought havoc unspeakable, it is through the missionary 
that Christian philanthropy has been able to function 
effectively. Suffering humanity in the East has found 
in him its friend. And in far wider ways has foreign 
missions ministered to bettering conditions of life. 
Womanhood has been uplifted, outcastes have been 
raised, savages have become industrious citizens, child 
marriage has been broken down, slave trade has been 
abolished. No one can read Dr. Dennis's monumental 
record of "Christian Missions and Social Progress" with- 
out realizing that the missionary enterprise has been the 
one great charitable and philanthropic agency in the 
Eastern world. 

The World War and the demands that it brought for 
international relief on a larger scale than ever before 
have afforded a most striking example of the mission- 
aries' service to humanity in the actual relief of suffering. 
Throughout the whole Near East international relief has 
been carried on by the missionaries. Why? Because 
there was not a single other agency upon the field or- 
ganized for the purpose of ministering to human life in a 
spirit of disinterested service. The Committee for Ar- 
menian and Syrian Relief reports that it operated exclu- 
sively through missionaries during the whole period of 
the war. Even when it was possible to send workers 



THE NEW INTERNATIONALISM 15 

from America, no unit was sent without a missionary 
at its head. The missionary was the one person who 
could be counted on really to know the needs of the peo- 
ple and the ways in which help could be effectively ad- 
ministered. In most of the areas the missionaries had 
been advised by governmental authorities to leave because 
of the dangers of the situation, but almost without excep- 
tion they cast in their fortunes with the war-sufferers. 
The immediate necessity for undertaking the huge pro- 
gram of international relief brought the missionary into 
a new prominence. As a matter of fact, however, the 
crisis simply exhibited in a more striking way the service 
he had been rendering, year in and year out, as the great 
exponent of that service and brotherhood which must 
become the keynote of our new international life. 

4. Foreign missions has for more than a hundred 
years been developing in non-Christian lands a high class 
of native leadership sympathetic to democracy and inter- 
nationalism. 

As a result of missionary endeavor outstanding charac- 
ters have been trained who have both shown the high 
resources of the race and been potent factors in leading 
backward peoples to a new national development. And 
the nationalism which leaders trained in a Christian at- 
mosphere have sought is one which finds its true place 
only in a brotherly society of free peoples. It is more 
significant than has generally been realized that at the 
Peace Conference at Versailles two of the three represen- 
tatives of the Chinese Republic were Christians. One 
of them, C. T. Wang, formerly vice-president of the 
Chinese Senate, was for many years secretary of the 
Chinese Y. M. C. A. Nor is it an accident that in Japan 
today Christians are among the greatest influences work- 
ing in the direction of a more democratic national life. 
In both cases the present situation is but the harvest of 
seed sown during the century by the missionary. 



16 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

Surely enough has been said to show that Christian 
missions has been a powerful agency for peace and inter- 
national good will. It is the one agency that has actually 
proceeded in the faith that all men belong to one great 
family. In a word, it may be said that all the ideal values 
that we were seeking to establish during the war — ^hu- 
man brotherhood, democracy, righteousness, permanent 
peace, good will, and cooperation among the nations — 
have been for a century at the heart of the missionary 
enterprise. 

And what is the underlying reason why foreign mis- 
sions has thus been a great preparation for the new 
internationalism? The ultimate explanation lies not in 
the missionary himself nor even in his work, but in the 
message that he has everywhere proclaimed. When all 
is said and done, the only adequate basis for an interna- 
tionalism resting upon cooperation and good will is in 
the Christian conception of God. It demands for its full 
realization the conviction that there is unity in the struc- 
ture of the universe itself, that the final reality is moral, 
righteous. Christlike, that there is an eternal purpose of 
good embracing all the nations of the earth. If the ulti- 
mate reality is impersonal matter, unmoral force, or a 
limited, imperfect spirit, we have no sure hope that the 
way of love is practicable or consistent with the matter- 
of-fact world in which we live. The faith that Sovereign 
Love is at the heart of things and that it is a universal 
Love is the one sufficient foundation for a world order 
that is to be built upon the principle of love, 

A word from an ancient, unknown Christian writer 
may therefore well summarize this chapter: "What the 
soul is in the body, that are Christians in the world. For 
the soul holds the body together and Christians hold the 
world together. This illustrious position has been as- 
signed them of God, which it were unlawful for them 
ever to forsake." 



CHAPTER II 

WHAT FOREIGN MISSIONS CAN CONTRIBUTE 
TO AN EFFECTIVE LEAGUE OF NATIONS 

Even among those who hold the war in awed remem- 
brance and seek to conserve all the ideal values for which 
the mighty sacrifice was made, there are great fears 
whether there are agencies at work that can make a 
league of nations really effective. They see unblasted 
rocks on which it may split — suspicion, animosity, selfish- 
ness, indifference. There are many and long chapters in 
the history of international relations in the past that will 
have to be forgotten or overlooked. Any effective league 
of nations must be underwritten with a spirit which, in 
spite of the spread of democracy, is by no means dom- 
inant in our modern life. Yet that safeguarding spirit 
is actually present in the world and is more widely dif- 
fused than is sometimes supposed. It is the very moving 
spring of the foreign missionary enterprise. 

The service of foreign missions to an effective league 
of nations is not connected with any particular form of 
such a league. Details of international covenants are open 
to thoughtful discussion and it is wholly possible that men 
with equal passion for the outcome may differ about the 
practical wisdom of a given proposal. There is no peril 
in that. The peril is in men who do not want interna- 
tional friendship, or who want it in only a half-hearted 
fashion, or who are cynical as to its possibility and who 
therefore sow seeds of international suspicion and ill 
will. It is a peril of the spirit, not of method. The edu- 
cation of the judgment may be carried on by many 
agencies ; the change of spirit on which the final success 



18 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

of any league of nations waits must be committed to 
spiritual agencies. 

Nor is the service of foreign missions to a league of 
nations to be found in the direct work of its representa- 
tives in various parts of the world. It has been well said 
that "the American missionary fairly exudes democracy 
wherever he goes." His method and his message, the 
Book he presents and the Gospel he preaches, are all 
faced toward fundamentally democratic ends. Yet it is 
no part of his conscious business to change modes of 
government or to effect political organization. Careless 
people will not distinguish between the ideas he repre- 
sents and their outworking in particular events. This is 
the fault in an explanation given by a Japanese paper in 
Chosen, quoted in a document issued by the Federal 
Council of the Churches of Christ in America : "The stir- 
ring up of the minds of the Koreans is the sin of the 
American missionaries. This uprising is their work. 
.... There are a good many shallow-minded people 
among the missionaries and they make the minds of the 
Koreans bad and they plant the seeds of democracy. So 
the greater part of the 300,000 Korean Christians do not 
like the union of Japan and Korea, but they are waiting 
for the opportunity for freedom." Of course that is 
both true and false. Christian ideas inevitably work 
themselves out into the desire for freedom, but those 
who teach them may differ sharply from those who learn 
them as to the way in which they should be given prac- 
tical effectiveness. No teacher can be held responsible 
for mistaken methods of putting his own teaching into 
practice. Missions face toward freedom and in so far 
oppose injustice and oppression, but missionaries may 
not on that account commit themselves to revolutions or 
plan new forms of government. The service of foreign 
missions to an effective league of nations is not to be 
found in the direct work which its personnel may render 
in that special cause. Its contribution is far deeper and 



AN EFFECTIVE LEAGUE OF NATIONS 19 

more fundamental, even though made in less conspicuous 
ways. 

1. The first service which foreign missions renders to 
an effective league of nations is in the developing of a 
body of people committed to the idea of brotherhood in 
all nations. 

It is no more important to have such a body of people 
in the receiving than in the sending nations. The whole 
missionary enterprise depends on the existence in Chris- 
tian lands of men who carry on their hearts the needs 
of other men and who feel responsibility for the meeting 
of those needs. The radius of their brotherhood must be 
that of the human race. It is a brotherhood which looks 
outward for its expression but upward for its warrant — a 
brotherhood born of the Christian religion, resting on the 
common Fatherhood of God and the universality of Jesus 
Christ, and proceeding upon the assumption that the unit 
for our social thinking must be humanity. 

It is an immeasurable asset for any international or- 
ganization that in every land of the earth today there 
exists a body of men, larger or smaller, to whom it is 
natural to think of others in terms of brotherhood and 
friendship, whose habit of mind is to think of the merits 
instead of the demerits of men of other nations, who 
would rather believe well than ill of men around the 
globe, who understand the spiritual language spoken by 
men of other tongues. Such groups have actually been 
built up by foreign missions all over the world. They 
put any great movement for the good of humanity in the 
position in which nascent Christianity found itself in the 
spread over the whole earth of the Jewish race, as a re- 
sult of which there was everywhere a small or large 
group to whom the new doctrine could be presented in- 
telligibly, among whom actually it did ordinarily take 
its first root. As a result of foreign missions thousands 
of men in all lands are already in league with one another 
at the deeper levels of life. 



20 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

2. Foreign missions serves the prospects of a league 
of nations also in developing the spiritual force of service 
and sacrifice on which the effectiveness of such a league 
fundamentally depends. 

The danger to an effective league is not primarily gov- 
ernmental or political. It is spiritual. It is the hearts 
of men that are in the way of it. The war has furnished 
a new motive for proclaiming the gospel of regeneration. 
A league of nations must be underwritten for safety by 
a league of unselfish hearts. It is no new thing to have 
nations concerned for each other. Strong nations have 
been looking out for weaker ones since the beginning 
of record, but it is a comparatively new thing for strong 
nations to look out for the weaker primarily for the 
good of the weaker. The very possibility of it is scouted 
by many people. Living by the brazen rule of selfishness 
they forget the Golden Rule of fellowship, which meas- 
ures what we do for others by what we would have others 
do for us; and that finer diamond rule of sacrifice, the 
rule of Christ's own life, "not to be ministered unto, but 
to minister, and to give his life." If an ideal and perfect 
league of nations were to be directed by selfish men, it 
would presently become only a more efficient way of 
exploiting weak nations in the interest of the strong. 

Over against this spirit of self-seeking the Christian 
Gospel sets the spirit of service and sacrifice. Any 
league that is consonant with its spirit will not be an 
agency for wielding the strong arm over the weak, but 
for placing the strong arm under the weak until they 
gain strength within themselves. No effective interna- 
tional relations can be established without risks and pos- 
sible cost. The abiding complaint of John Hay was that 
he could not get treaties ratified unless he could prove 
to the satisfaction of a certain group of senators that the 
United States would gain more than the other nation. 
Unless their own country had some larger profit than 
other nations, they counted it unpatriotic to enter into 



AN EFFECTIVE LEAGUE OF NATIONS 21 

the treaty. That attitude is not confined to senatorial 
thinking nor to America. In the past we have had na- 
tionalism for aggression, as in the case of Germany; 
for distinction, as in Tagore's plea for India and Japan ; 
and for defense, as in early American history. The need 
now is for a nationalism that shall be for service. It is 
the one type of nationalism that will make the full suc- 
cess of a league of nations possible. 

The spirit of sacrifice must be formed in all nations. 
Everywhere, quietly, insistently, forcefully, men who be- 
lieve in the spirit of service and sacrifice as over against 
the spirit of selfishness and distrust of others must prop- 
agate their faith. But where is there any adequate basis 
for such a spirit except in the Gospel of Christ? And 
where is such a spirit so marked as in foreign missions? 
Foreign missions is the test of it and the greatest single 
manifestation of it anywhere. The missionaries them- 
selves are exemplifying it — they are on foreign fields 
for other men's sakes. The Gaekwar of Baroda told a 
visitor that he was thinking of calling together the Chris- 
tian missionaries and asking them how to improve the 
quality of the native Hindu priesthood and added, "Then 
I want to call the priests together and say to them, *Look 
at the missionaries. See the sacrifices they are making 
to help our people. You ought to go out and do the same 
kind of work.' " In every non-Christian land the Chris- 
tians constitute the one group whose faith carries this 
spirit as part of its inescapable logic. It is the religion 
of sacrifice, it centers in the Cross and issues in a cross. 
It demands that we bear one another's burdens if we are 
to fulfil the law of Christ. 

And a league of nations that is really to bind together 
the nations of the world must have exactly that spirit. 
For the league is in itself only a piece of lifeless machin- 
ery. All its value will depend on the extent to which 
the spirit of the nations that enter it is truly Christian. 
Lord Robert Cecil went to the heart of the matter when 



22 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

he said in a recent address that if we depend for peace 
on the League of Nations alone we are Hving in a fools' 
paradise, since the only final solution is in the principles 
of Christ. 

3. Foreign missions contributes to a league of nations 
the attitude of faith that is absolutely essential to its 
success. 

One of the serious obstacles to the realization of a new 
world order is that there are so many who believe it to 
be impossible. Human nature, they say, does not change. 
The beginning of a new order of life, therefore, depends 
on the generation of sufficient faith to make it possible 
to proceed. But this is one of the points where the Chris- 
tian Gospel has its most significant contribution to make. 
It sounds a great note of faith both in God and in the 
unrealized possibilities of human nature. 

And foreign missions is itself the most striking exam- 
ple that the Church has seen of the validity of this method 
of approach. The whole history of missions is but the 
application of the principle of faith to situations that, 
humanly speaking, seemed impossible. Its triumphs are 
the world's greatest evidence that racial differences are 
not necessarily a barrier to brotherhood, that interna- 
tional friendship is actually possible, that men of diverse 
races will respond to motives of trust and good will. The 
history of foreign missions is also a great refutation of 
the lack of faith implied in the saying that human nature 
cannot be changed. The spirit of Christ, carried by for- 
eign missions to many lands, has already gone far in 
really changing human nature. It has certainly released 
mighty recreative influences in what was formerly called 
the unchanging East. It has given us new assurance that 
it is just for the sake of changing nature — leading it out 
of selfishness and sin into service and love — that Chris- 
tianity exists. 

4. Foreign missions contributes to the effectiveness of 
a league of nations by developing a spirit of mutual un- 



AN EFFECTIVE LEAGUE OF NATIONS 23 

derstanding that encourages rational methods of dealing 
with differences in human relations. 

It is idle to expect that the hardships, and difficulties, 
and horrors of war will prevent its recurrence when the 
occasion arises again, if no other and more effective way 
of gaining the result has been found. And no proposed 
league of nations has ever pretended to make war entirely 
impossible. No intelligent man can offer such hostages 
to the future as that. All that can be put into any cove- 
nant is such machinery as will delay hasty decision until 
the slow processes of mutual understanding and adjust- 
ment can have their chance. 

But both the accomplishing of this delay and the work- 
ing of those forces are operations in the field of the 
spirit. Nations must want to avoid war, must believe in 
other ways of adjusting differences, must prefer those 
ways. And here also Christianity has a contribution to 
make, especially so in the international phase of it that 
we call foreign missions. For, in the first place, Chris- 
tianity deepens men's sense of horror for war, since in 
the light of the Christian conception of the brotherhood 
of men within one Kingdom of God all war becomes a 
family strife, with all the shame that that involves. Chris- 
tianity, therefore, challenges the causes that are ordinarily 
pleaded as necessitating war and tends to diminish the 
occasions that can be regarded as justifying it. In the 
second place, the work that Christianity has done through 
foreign missions emphasizes the possibility of securing 
mutual understanding and adjustment among those who 
seriously differ on many important points. It has shown 
that Christian brotherhood is possible, even though there 
are so many diversities among Christians that they do not 
think alike. It is of course true that the exponents of 
Christianity have violated this spirit many times, both in 
Western nations and on the mission field, and have tried 
to settle differences by force, or by ostracism, or by re- 
fusal of fellowship. But its genius is against them. 



24 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

Something fine in any Christian heart is outraged when 
one man cannot differ from another without coming to 
blows or forfeiting the spirit of love. And foreign mis- 
sions is spreading that spirit throughout the world, form- 
ing in all nations bodies of men who are ready to recog- 
nize differences and to deal with them in openness and 
sincerity until ways can be found of mutual service. It 
tells the world of a God whose love for it is not based 
on its goodness but flows out to it in its badness, of a 
Christ who died for men while they were yet sinners, of 
a brotherhood called to a world-wide mission because 
other men need it. In the presence of such a faith only 
patience and forbearance with men whom we count 
wrong are logical. If a league of nations is to be most 
effective, it must be maintained by nations with just such 
a faith. 

5. Foreign missions contributes to a league of nations 
a common interest and the bond of a common religions 
faith, without which a full and permanent brotherhood 
is impossible. 

Men and nations come together only because they have 
things in common. The extent of their unity depends on 
the importance of the things that thus bind them together. 
So a league of nations depends on the existence of a suffi- 
ciently strong common bond — something that will tran- 
scend geographical lines and give men otherwise sepa- 
rated a common interest, which will seem too great to be 
broken by collisions of a minor sort. What is this unify- 
ing principle to be? For many years it was supposed 
that the commercial and financial intertwining among 
nations would prevent war. Some people think it will do 
so in the future. But financial and commercial interests 
have a hard struggle to keep from being merely selfish. 
They are not generally born of good will and the spirit 
of service, so they are quite as likely to lead to war as to 
prevent it. What is needed is a tie which reaches the 
deepest levels of life. The Edinburgh Conference was 



AN EFFECTIVE LEAGUE OF NATIONS 25 

solemnizing in its significance at just this point. There 
gathered men of many minds and from all nations, as 
diverse as men could well be, speaking all the tongues 
of the world or representing others who did so. Yet a 
supreme interest had been found which was common to 
them all. They were all concerned to get the same great 
end accomplished. It was not an end that obliterated 
distinctions or reduced all nations to a common level, but 
it rose above distinctions and gave a unity that ran deeper 
than a common level. 

The fundamental human interests are religious inter- 
ests. It is a common faith that is the largest common 
concern. There is nothing else compelling and dynamic 
enough to bind the world together. It is indeed doubtful 
whether there can ever be the fullest and most permanent 
brotherhood without a common religion. 

And it is foreign missions that gives the common faith 
on which a genuine family of nations can be built. Uni- 
versal Christianity is the only sufficient basis for world 
democracy. It sets before the world the ideal of the 
Kingdom of God, embracing all nations upon the earth 
in the sway of the spirit of Christ and calling all nations 
to a great program of mutual service as the will of God. 
Men who have caught the zest of that program will be 
ready for the very relation among countries that a league 
of nations must have. They do not carry out their pro- 
gram for the sake of a league of nations, but find in a 
league the political counterpart of their religious faith. 



In this discussion of the contribution that Christian 
missions have made and must make to a league of na- 
tions, it has been assumed that some such international 
organization commands the support of all men who are 
committed to the Christian way of life and have caught 
the vision of the coming of the world-wide Kingdom of 
God upon the earth. It has not been assumed, however, 



26 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

that we yet have in any covenant for a league that has 
been proposed all the elements which the full expression 
of Christian faith would demand. Many hold that the 
League in its present form affords no adequate assurance 
either of religious liberty or of liberty to carry on mis- 
sionary work. It may not guarantee that equality of 
treatment of all races which is called for by the spirit of 
Christian brotherhood. The scheme of mandatories may 
become only a means for the exploitation of weak peo- 
ples, unless it is safeguarded by motives of service and 
good will. In these and other points the Christians of 
the world will still have occasion, after a beginning of the 
League has actually been secured, to give their best effort 
to making the external organization conform increasingly 
to the mind and spirit of Jesus Christ. 

The most direct service, however, that the average 
Christian can render to a league of nations is in the 
strengthening and extension of the foreign mission pro- 
gram. The spirit in which the missionary enterprise is 
bom, the spirit which it brings to birth, the spirit in which 
it lives, is the spirit on which an effective league of na- 
tions must depend. The groups that support it, the groups 
that it develops in the nations, the groups that it binds 
together, are the groups to which an effective league must 
look for its fullest support. The Gospel which foreign 
missions proclaims assumes the essential oneness of the 
human race, holds that God "hath made of one blood all 
nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth," and 
sets before the world the ideal of one family of nations 
constituting His Kingdom. And at the center of that 
Gospel stands a figure who embodies in Himself the prin- 
ciple of sacrifice and service which is the only principle 
on which an effective league of nations can proceed. 



CHAPTER III 

FOREIGN MISSIONS AND DEMOCRACY IN 
NON-CHRISTIAN LANDS 

There is no word which has been so much a watchword 
of the World War as democracy. It has been on every- 
body's Hps. However the war began, we came to think 
of it as a great movement for human freedom and demo- 
cratic principles. Nor was this new interest in democ- 
racy confined to the Western world. In the remotest 
corners to which rumors of the war penetrated there 
were heard also the terms, "democracy," "freedom," 
"self-determination." It is not surprising, then, that in 
widely separated parts of the world new tendencies to 
democracy have arisen or former movements in that 
direction have been accelerated. Most striking of all, 
perhaps, is the situation that now exists in the so-called 
non-Christian world. 

The rising democratic movement and foreign missions 
cannot be without significance for each other. On the 
one hand, foreign missions is concerned with these demo- 
cratic movements that are taking place on the mission 
fields because democracy itself has foundations that are 
essentially religious. It is more than a political and 
economic thing. It rests fundamentally upon the con- 
viction of the intrinsic worth of every human personality 
and aims at a recognition of this principle in all forms of 
social organization. Democracy is woven into the very 
warp and woof of the teaching of Jesus. On the other 
hand, democracy in the non-Christian lands cannot be 
adequately considered apart from foreign missions, both 



28 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

because the missionary enterprise has been one of the 
great factors unconsciously working in that direction and 
also because the democratic movements now need the 
guidance of the Christian principles that lie at the heart 
of the missionary message. It is important, therefore, 
to consider the relation of foreign missions and the demo- 
cratic movement to each other. Before we can do so 
intelligently, however, we need to set before us certain 
of the basic facts in the present situation. 

Great nations and races, hitherto not fully awakened to 
a sense of their power or their possibilities, are becoming 
self-conscious and are in a spirit of unrest. We may 
observe this situation throughout the world. In South 
Africa the blacks are now very restless over efforts to 
discriminate against them, and the immigrant Indians in 
their turn are unhappy over similar discriminations. In 
North Africa, particularly in Egypt, national aspirations 
and racial unrest are strongly felt. Almost everywhere 
in Latin America nationals fear that Anglo-Saxon influ- 
ences are seeking to restrict and defeat the efforts of the 
Latin American world to express itself according to its 
own genius, and a new attitude of self-reliance is coming 
to birth. The more marked and extended manifestations 
of racial self-consciousness, however, are to be seen in 
the various parts of Asia. In India, Java, the Philip- 
pines, China, Korea, and Japan there are strong move- 
ments that have the common characteristics of increasing 
national and racial self -consciousness. 

This rising sense of power has two differing thrusts, 
varying according to the degree of opposition which 
thwarts the desire for self-expression. On the one hand, 
we see a growing indignation against the efforts of the 
white race — or, in the case of Latin America, against 
some of the northern nations — ^to impose their will, politi- 
cally, industrially, commercially, upon weaker nations 
and races and to mobilize military force for the main- 
tenance of control. On the other hand, we find the 



FOREIGN MISSIONS AND DEMOCRACY 29 

"tinted races,"^ particularly in Asia, attempting to become 
articulate on national or racial lines by organizing them- 
selves after republican models, for the purpose of with- 
standing the pressure from the white race and securing 
immunity from foreign interference in the management 
of internal affairs. 

There is, in addition to this increased sense of self- 
consciousness and power, a growing desire for actual 
democratic institutions. This desire is most definitely 
manifest in China and in the Philippines, where there 
has been a long preparation for it, but is also very notice- 
able in India, Korea, and Japan, where the movement has 
to overcome the traditions and habits of peoples who have 
been accustomed to autocracy, even to tyranny, for cen- 
turies. It is especially notable that this democratic move- 
ment is beginning to express itself industrially as well as 
politically, as the tinted races adopt more and more of 
the features of modern industry. The growing frequency 
with which the strike and the boycott are being used in 
China, Japan, and India as a means of self-defense 
against oppression of any sort marks the beginning of a 
new stage in the development of the Asiatic peoples. 

The causes contributing to this rising self-conscious- 
ness, this desire for self-expression, and the present 
democratic drift in Asia are too complex and intermingled 
to admit of precise analysis. We have to recognize at 
the outset that there are certain democratic tendencies 
inherent in the social life of Asia itself. While the pa- 
triarchal form of social organization, which still lingers 
in the greater part of the non-Christian world, is cer- 
tainly autocratic, and often cruelly so in its operation, 
one must not forget or underestimate the democratic 
aspects of the social structure. Mohammedanism has a 
thoroughly democratic spirit among its followers, so far 
as the male population is concerned. Hindu village life 



iQne may dislike the term "tinted races," but it is difficult to 
find one less open to criticism. 



30 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

contains broadly democratic features within the caste, 
which often mitigate the fundamentally undemocratic 
features of the caste system as a whole. The local gov- 
ernment and community life of China exhibit a large 
measure of democracy and have been a great foundation 
stone for the Chinese Republic. What has been chiefly 
needed, therefore, in many non-Christian lands was sim- 
ply that autocratic restraints should be removed and an 
inherently democratic spirit be given opportunity to come 
to self-expression. 

But there are important outside influences that have 
come to bear upon the life of Asia and Africa during the 
last century, influences whose force has been particularly 
felt during the last few years. It is exceedingly difficult, 
if not impossible, to assign to the various causes even 
relative values or priority in chronological operation, or 
to indicate the varying extent to which they have been 
severally effective in different lands. The general influ- 
ences that have been at work may, however, be roughly 
summarized as follows : 

1. The expansion of European colonial empires by 
military force among the tinted races. This has sharply 
challenged the sense of justice which dwells in every 
self-respecting human heart. Furthermore, the white 
race, by introducing a notion of color-consciousness wher- 
ever it has gone, has stimulated and accentuated a similar 
color-consciousness among the tinted races. The present 
color-consciousness in Japan and in India has been largely 
forced into coherence and shape by the color-line which 
has been established by the white race. Similar lines are 
being rapidly formed on a nation-wide scale in China. 

2. International commerce. This has had the effect 
of giving to the tinted races a new sense of their economic 
value in the markets of the world, and, notwithstanding 
the varying degrees of exploitation to which these races 
have been subjected, has left a considerable increment of 
wealth among every race. There has thus resulted a 



FOREIGN MISSIONS AND DEMOCRACY 31 

clash, of commercial interests in which the capitalistic 
forces of the Western world are now pitted against the 
smaller, yet growing, capitalistic forces of Asia. 

The multiplication of the means of communication 
which has attended the growth of commerce, has, on the 
one hand, multiplied the cultural contacts between the 
East and the West, and, on the other, greatly promoted 
the development of racial unity within nations and also 
the consciousness of a wider unity throughout the Orient. 
The popular unrest which has been characteristic of the 
Western world for a generation has been directly com- 
municated to Asia by students and through literature. 

3. Certain political events of world-wide significance 
have had effects almost revolutionary upon the mental 
and spiritual outlook of Asia. First of these has been 
the American occupation of the Philippines and the his- 
toric American diplomatic policy in China, as illustrated 
by the open-door policy and the return of the Boxer 
indemnity. This has given to the Oriental an actual 
demonstration of a relationship between strong and weak 
nations hitherto unknown among them, and has greatly 
increased the resentment at prevailing practices in inter- 
national policies that are contrary to the spirit of that 
finer policy. The second important event was the defeat 
of Russia by Japan and the rapid elevation of Japan to 
a position among the powers. To the Oriental races 
generally this brilliant record of Japan has been a great 
encouragement, for it has demonstrated the inherent 
power of the Oriental not only to meet the Occidental 
on his own ground, but to meet him successfully. 

The third great political event that has profoundly af- 
fected the thought of Asia is the European war, into 
which the Oriental was led by the European powers. 
Through it the Asiatic races learned that they were de- 
sirable parties in international affairs, since their will for 
good or ill was a matter to be reckoned with by the 
powers. The transportation of so many soldiers and 



32 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

laborers to far-off battle-fields has given new horizons to 
millions of people and has loosened the power of ancient 
traditions and habits. The slogans of democracy, self- 
determination, and the defense of weak nations, under 
which the Allied nations appealed for the moral support 
of mankind, have created new desires among the Asiatics 
and have aroused hopes which the master nations are 
now reluctant to satisfy. 

4. The introduction of evangelical Christianity into 
Asia through the channels of foreign missions has been 
the fourth great contributing cause to the growing de- 
mands of the Asiatic races for rights of self-determina- 
tion.2 Wherever the full Gospel of Christ has gone it 
has unconsciously stimulated movements for liberty and 
life; it has made for freedom and human rights. The 
contributions of Christianity, which have been many, 
both direct and indirect, do not need to be discussed here 
in detail, as they appear in other parts of this volume. 
It cannot be too much emphasized, however, that all its 
contributions to democracy rest on its fundamental con- 
ceptions of the worth of every human soul, the divine 
possibilities of every person as revealed in Jesus Christ, 
and the purpose of God for the world. 

It appears fairly obvious that the world may yet suffer 
more bitterly than ever before if the causes of the present 
Oriental unrest are not met by stronger corrective and 
constructive influences than are at present being em- 
ployed. The desires of the Asiatic races for independ- 
ence cannot forever be suppressed by military force. It 
is equally certain that the eventual removal of European 
influence from Asia will not be sufficient to assure the 
peace of the Orient. Asia is now entering upon an in- 
dustrial and commercial age in which the exploitation 
of underpaid workers within the nations and the sting 
of poverty will in the future probably create quite as 



2 Cf. Chapter III, p. 18. 



FOREIGN MISSIONS AND DEMOCRACY 33 

much irritation and disturbance as is now created by 
outside interference. Great, positive, inspiring, and up- 
building influences are the one demand. 

It will be accepted without challenge that Christianity, 
through the Christian Church and its foreign missionary 
work, ought to be able to make a great contribution 
toward saving the world from this threatening disaster. 
But the problem is by no means a simple one. We know 
all too well how far short we fall in our own land of 
measuring up to any adequate ideal of a Christian democ- 
racy. Great unchristian aspects of our industrial and 
social order still stare us in the face. Yet at least we are 
conscious of a Christian goal. We have caught a vision 
of what a Christian democracy would be and as Chris- 
tians we are striving for it. What we want to do in the 
non-Christian world is not to set forth our actual 
Western democracy as anything with which we are yet 
satisfied, but to bring to full consciousness among Eastern 
peoples our conception of the social goal, in order that 
they and we may unite in working for the establishing 
of the world-wide Kingdom of God and the sway of the 
spirit of Christ. As Christian missions has in the past 
made such an important contribution among the Eastern 
races in stimulating those very aspirations which, while 
unsatisfied, are so full of peril for the peace of the world, 
so now must missions guide those aspirations into the 
only path that will ever lead to an adequate solution. 

What, then, are the contributions that foreign missions 
has to make to the rising social unrest and how are they 
to be made ? 

1. Christian missions must emphasise the ideal of a 
truly democratic fellowship. But if this is to be done it 
is of primary importance that the missionary himself 
understand the full import of his gospel. He must come 
to regard it as part of his task, in a larger degree than 
many do at present, to furnish the definite ideals and 
demonstrations out of which may be developed demo- 



34 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

cratic fellowship in local communities, in states, and in 
international relations. The Gospel must be expounded 
as a message applicable to all social, as well as to indi- 
vidual, affairs. We must show that the spiritual values 
of the Gospel have definite implications for political, com- 
mercial, and industrial life. The non-Christian world is 
now in a state to be peculiarly receptive to sincere proc- 
lamation of the social significance of the Gospel. 

But the prevailing hazy and timid thinking of vast sec- 
tions of American churches with reference to such funda- 
mental questions as the relations of men of different color 
to each other, and the relation of human values to prop- 
erty values, at present constitutes an almost insuperable 
handicap to the preaching of the full Gospel in Asia. 
The intelligent sections of the non-Christian races have 
recently been made terribly aware that in the applications 
of the doctrine of the infinite value of every human soul 
the prevailing opinion among Christian peoples is an 
uncertain staff upon which to lean. The gospel message 
must be stated with great clearness, not merely by the 
missionary for his prospective converts, but also for him- 
self and the Church at home. 

2. Foreign missions must hold up the ideal of the 
inherent worth of all human life — of even the weak and 
the unfit. There is great danger as Asia moves on into 
the new era, acquiring, as she undoubtedly will either 
peacefully or by force, greater degrees of self-expression, 
both politically and economically, that the ideal of the 
supreme value of human personality will be more and 
more sacrificed through militarism, modern industry, and 
bad social adjustments. At this point foreign missions 
is already making a very important contribution, which, 
however, must be greatly increased in view of the accel- 
erated speed of the democratic movement in Asia. The 
Gospel stands not merely for justice and equality, but 
also for mercy, for the development of the unfit, and for 
the preparation of the weak for the battle of life. The 



FOREIGN MISSIONS AND DEMOCRACY 35 

missionary school and the missionary hospital come, 
therefore, to assume an importance far beyond the sta- 
tistics of attendance and patronage. They are demon- 
strations of the fundamental Christian ideals of the incal- 
culable worth of human life and of the responsibility of 
the strong for the weak. The school and the hospital 
are thus great illustrations of the saving salt of modern 
civilization and are as truly evangelistic in their message 
as the church or chapel. 

3. Foreign missions has also a contribution to make 
to the development of a Christian industrial order in non- 
Christian lands. All democratic aspirations in Asia will 
prove abortive, except as the various peoples learn how 
to increase production to provide a sufficient margin of 
wealth on which to sustain effective popular education, 
sanitation, modern industry, efficient government, and 
well-supported religious programs. The missionary 
movement has already done something in the line of in- 
dustrial and agricultural education, but more than train- 
ing in improved method is demanded. In this day, when 
modern industrial development is still formative in much 
of Asia, we need to give our best effort to the organiza- 
tion of industry in such a way as will most fully minister 
to the common good and conserve human life instead of 
wasting it. To leave the stimulation of production to 
the ordinary processes of industrial and commercial com- 
petition is to open the doors of Asia to the evils of polit- 
ical and industrial maladjustment as they have developed 
in the Western world. Why should we not be able to 
help the East in the light of our own mistakes ? 

If we are ever to have Christian democracy in Asia, 
attention must be earnestly directed not only to the 
problem of production of goods but also to the prob- 
lem of distribution in a way that the Christian con- 
science can approve. It would be hardly creditable to 
the Christian Church in her efforts to Christianize the 
non-Christian races, if she were to endorse and propa- 



36 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

gate among these peoples the defects of our Western 
economic system, which has come so short of ministering 
justly to human needs. 

4. Foreign missions must proclaim in the non-Chris- 
tian world the ideal of social responsibility. Of the twin 
Christian doctrines of individual liberty and social re- 
sponsibility, the former has often received such a dis- 
proportionate emphasis as to exclude the application of 
the latter in a comprehensive way. This disproportionate 
emphasis on individual liberty is especially characteristic 
of a revolutionary period and may constitute a grave 
danger in the way of orderly changes, both political and 
economic, in Asia. The emphasis which Christianity 
places upon the ideal of social responsibility gives to the 
work of Christian missions in Asia a transcending impor- 
tance in the age which is just before us. In the light, 
therefore, of the democratic movements in the non-Chris- 
tian world it is clear that the work of foreign missions 
is many times more urgent than it ever was before. Now, 
as always, the message of new life for the individual is 
the essential foundation, but it must in hosts of ways 
be so proclaimed that no aspect of social relationships 
shall lie outside its sphere. Having done so much to 
stimulate the democratic desires of the Asiatic races, we 
should break faith indeed if we should fail to meet the 
increasing need for wise leadership and conserving influ- 
ences with increasing vigor and with large extension of 
Christian work. In planning for the future we must bear 
in mind that the Orient needs the impact of a full-orbed 
Gospel. No phase of missionary work needs to be 
emphasized to the exclusion of another. Changes of 
policy or of proportion are of less importance than in- 
crease of power and efficiency in every line. 

Perhaps more urgent than any other need is that of 
changing the prevailing attitude of the average church 
at home toward the entire question of the proper rela- 
tions between the white and the tinted races. The tinted 



FOREIGN MISSIONS AND DEMOCRACY 37 

races must be elevated in the estimation of Christian peo- 
ple to the dignity which is the rightful possession of all 
human life. Patronizing manners and the attitude of the 
superior to the inferior must give way to a spirit of un- 
constrained Christian brotherhood. 

To accomplish this great purpose the existing mission- 
ary organizations at the home base offer highly efficient 
machinery which is being inadequately utilized as an 
instrument of Christian education. The local missionary 
society should take on a new dignity, as an organization 
specifically dedicated to the extension of justice to the 
tinted races. It ought never to be allowed to appear 
merely as an agency for the stimulation of financial con- 
tributions. 

The greatest danger to which the League of Nations is 
liable is that it may become an instrument in the hands 
of master nations for the exploitation of the weaker 
races. This danger is great because there does not at 
present exist a sufficiently awakened conscience on the 
part of Christian people, nor a sufficiently organized 
Christian public sentiment to sustain a bulwark of de- 
fense against injustice to the tinted races. There are at 
present indications that efforts will be made to pay for 
further extensions of industrial democracy in England 
and America by additional exploitations of weaker peo- 
ples. The realization of such a policy would all but 
paralyze the work of evangelizing the world. 

The rising tide of social unrest in non-Christian lands 
presents, therefore, to missionary organizations at the 
home base the double responsibility of greatly increasing 
the scope of Christian work on the foreign fields and of 
creating a more adequately Christian attitude on the part 
of their constituencies themselves toward the tinted races 
of the world. 



CHAPTER IV 

THE ENLARGED OUTLOOK OF FOREIGN 
MISSIONS 

The foregoing chapters lead to the unmistakable con- 
clusion that the new situation in which the world finds 
itself after the war results in a greatly enlarged outlook 
for the foreign missionary enterprise. Its social and in- 
ternational significance, never adequately appreciated nor 
understood, now stands forth in clearer light. Through- 
out the world there is a rising spirit of democracy and of 
social aspiration — and Christianity is the only adequate 
foundation for it. The future safety and welfare of the 
world are seen to depend upon the moving of the nations 
toward international brotherhood — and Christianity af- 
fords the only sufficient basis for such a program. 

Foreign missions has always been presented as an 
urgent task, but a new urgency has now entered into it. 
There have been times when the insistency of its appeal 
was set forth in terms of the millions who were passing 
into eternity unsaved. Again its challenge has been 
brought to us in terms of individuals who need, here and 
now, a gospel of personal salvation. It is undoubtedly 
true that there has never been a time when the task was 
thought of simply in terms of the conversion of the indi- 
vidual. Wherever the missionary has gone he has dis- 
covered that he could not fully change the individual 
life till many evil phases of the social environment — 
such as slavery, polygamy, and caste — were broken down. 
As a matter of fact, wherever he has gone these have 
actually begun to give way. In the present day, however, 
we have come to a clear and vivid conception of the goal 
as nothing less than the creation of a Christian society 



ENLARGED OUTLOOK OF MISSIONS 39 

throughout the world. Now, therefore, especially in the 
light of the war, foreign missions may be presented as 
demanding even more urgent support on the additional 
ground of the salvation of society; for the very possi- 
bility of the new social order, the vision of which was 
our greatest inspiration in the war, rests upon the ac- 
cepted sway of the Christian principles that foreign mis- 
sions is seeking to establish throughout the world. 

No better illustration of this could be desired than an 
address delivered by the Minister of Justice of Canton, 
in Shekki, a large city of southern China, reported by a 
traveler in the Orient a few weeks ago. The officials of 
the city, who were non-Christian, were seated behind the 
speaker on the platform and listened to his ringing mes- 
sage, the gist of which was summarized in these three 
points: (1) Jesus Christ is the only hope for a man; (2) 
Jesus Christ is the only hope for a nation; (3) Jesus 
Christ is the only hope for the world. 

Some of the simple missionary programs which were 
adequate to an early stage now need, therefore, to be 
supplemented and enlarged by more comprehensive ones. 
As our task constantly enlarges and the movement reaches 
a maturer stage, coming face to face with the complex 
social problems of the present day, it is to be expected 
that it will express itself in larger ways. Even if its goal 
has sometimes been shortsighted and inadequate, we still 
need to realize that the missionary movement, as has 
been lately said, reveals its greatness even in its self -edu- 
cating and self-reforming character. The center and 
core of all Christian work now as always is the bringing 
of new life to the individual, but in addition to this the 
new world situation brings more explicitly into conscious- 
ness certain other emphases of the missionary task. 

I. Christianizing Nations 

Certainly the time has come to lay fresh hold on the 
thought of Christianizing the corporate life of nations. 



40 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

Now when we realize more keenly that before we can 
ever have a Christian family of nations there must be 
Christian national units, we should be led out into a 
resurvey of all the zones and strata of the life of each 
nation — whether Christian or non-Christian, so-called — 
that are unchristianized or inadequately occupied by 
Christian agencies or even unreached by Christian influ- 
ences. In each country the missionary movement must 
now press with fresh vision and increasing vigor, by 
every means within its power, the applicability of Chris- 
tian principles and obligations to all phases of social life. 

This ideal of Christianizing the nations assumes, of 
course, the legitimacy of national development. Foreign 
missions has no thought of foreignizing, or denational- 
izing, or cosmopolitanizing any people. In the midst of 
our present emphasis on internationalism we should bear 
in mind not simply the right but the duty of each nation 
to develop according to its own genius and native spirit. 
The Gospel, then, needs to be so presented as to reveal 
its power to guide, supplement, and bring to the highest 
fruition those elements in each civilization or country 
which promote the welfare of its own people and the 
richness of the world. The missionary, therefore, while 
continuing to avoid political entanglements and factional 
alliances, is called upon to acquaint himself with the trend 
of national aspiration and to cultivate toward it a wise 
and generous sympathy, using every opportunity to com- 
mend Christianity as the only power by which the highest 
nationhood can ever be attained. 

To this end we need an enlarged campaign of social 
service as a ministry to the nation and as an incarnation 
of the Christian spirit. The present moment is particu- 
larly opportune for such an emphasis, since in so many 
lands it is a plastic, formative period when old social 
arrangements are giving way and when we have, there- 
fore, such an opportunity as may not come again for 
generations to fashion the life of the nation in Chris- 



ENLARGED OUTLOOK OF MISSIONS 41 

tian moulds. With almost entire unanimity the corre- 
spondents with whom the Committee on the War and the 
Religious Outlook has been in touch have agreed that 
missionary work must now be enlarged so as to aim 
directly at changing not only the individual life, but also 
the character of society itself. More and more Chris- 
tianity must be manifested as a practical force working 
constructively on conditions that depress, destroy, or 
degrade. Social amelioration and uplift through schools, 
hospitals, clubs, refuges, farm colonies, orphanages, in- 
dustrial centers, and other agencies need to be vastly 
extended in each land and intensively prosecuted as a 
national ministry. In addition to such practical en- 
deavors, the Gospel must constantly be held forth as 
embodying those ideals and principles which alone can 
solve the complex questions of industrial and social 
relationships. 

But when we conceive Christian missions in such far- 
reaching social and international terms as these, we can 
no longer think of it as being adequately carried on 
merely by the specialized work of missionaries. We see 
its inevitable relation to Western commerce, industry, 
international relations, and travel. The approach of all 
of these to the Orient must be Christianized, so that the 
trader, diplomat, and tourist will not daily deny the gospel 
of brotherhood proclaimed by the missionary. The 
"evangelization" of the world may be accomplished by 
increasing the number of missionaries. The Christianiza- 
tion of the world is a vastly greater task and cannot 
fully be achieved until the whole impact of the West 
upon the East has been permeated by the Christian spirit. 

II. Nationalizing Christianity 

The recognition of the legitimacy of proper national- 
ism and of the necessity of Christianizing it leads us to 
emphasize the importance of Christianity's developing 
in each land according to the native genius, for it is only 



42 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

as Christianity actually takes such a form that it will 
ever be able to permeate and control the national life. 
Only a natural growth can become a great power among 
a people — an exotic thing never can. We do not want 
to produce a mere replica of any type of Western Chris- 
tianity in the Orient. We want to sow the seed which 
will grow into an indigenous plant. We are not to aim, 
therefore, to impose a program or policy of our Western 
making upon the Churches which the missionaries bring 
into being overseas. Nor can we insist upon their accept- 
ing all our notions concerning Christianity. We carry the 
truth as we see it and pray that the Spirit may lead them 
into the Truth. 

■ We candidly recognize that mistakes have often been 
made in this matter, or perhaps they were not so much 
mistakes as earlier stages in a process of development. 
Western ways that were foreign to the Eastern spirit 
and that were merely the accompaniments of Christianity, 
not a part of it, have often been adopted with Christianity 
itself. Western types of church architecture, music, 
worship, have often been slavishly copied, with the result 
that the Christian community sometimes seems alienated 
from the currents of national life. A serious article in a 
recent issue of the International Review of Missions, en- 
titled "How Missions Denationalize Indians," written by 
a thoughtful leader in the Christian Church in India, 
concludes that "the Indian Christian community is cer- 
tainly isolated from the rest of India." There is reason 
to believe, it may be remarked in passing, that the situa- 
tion created in certain Eastern lands by the war has had 
the effect of bringing about a closer identification of the 
Christian community with national aspirations. From 
Korea and China at least strong tendencies in this direc- 
tion are reported. 

Not only from the standpoint of the expansion of 
Christianity, but also from a consideration of its enrich- 
ment, it is important that we afford to every people the 



ENLARGED OUTLOOK OF MISSIONS 43 

free opportunity to contribute out of its full experience 
to the interpretation of the ever expanding but yet un- 
fathomed truths of the Christian religion. The East, by 
virtue of its different characteristics and temperament, 
may disclose elements in the Christian faith that never 
have been understood nor appreciated by the Western 
world. We need not fear if Christianity assume new 
forms. Indeed, we may well hope that it is so rich and 
dynamic that new forms will appear. Through all its 
history it has been by expansion that it has been enriched. 
Except for its missionary character it would have re- 
mained a Jewish cult. It was by becoming indigenous 
in Greek, Roman, and Teutonic cultures as well as 
Semitic that it was progressively enriched. One of the 
most marvelous things in its history and a great basis 
for belief in its universality and finality has been this 
very power to adapt itself to new environment. If the 
spirit of Christ can clothe itself in Jewish, Greek, Roman, 
and Teutonic forms, surely it can clothe itself also in 
Indian and Chinese forms. It may well be that we shall 
never have a full vision of Christ or a completed Chris- 
tianity till the East has contributed its thought and prac- 
tice to it. 

III. Christianizing Internationalism 

We have already seen that internationalism is not in 
itself a Christian ideal, that it may follow unchristian or 
even anti-Christian lines. It ought, then, to be unmis- 
takable that foreign missions, with its representatives all 
over the world, has a great opportunity and responsi- 
bility in the years that lie ahead to promote an inter- 
nationalism based on Christian ideals of brotherhood and 
good will. 

The imperativeness of Christianizing internationalism 
becomes more apparent when we realize that the non- 
Christian world knows how even the so-called Christian 
world has broken down because its international relations 



44 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

did not rest on Christian principles. The war has re- 
vealed to non-Christian peoples, as well as to us, the 
unchristian character of much of our national life, based 
on selfish ambition, desire for expansion regardless of 
others, domination, suspicion, secrecy, and fear. That this 
was actually felt abroad and was often interpreted as a 
failure of Christianity itself is recognized by practically 
all the correspondents with whom the Committee on the 
War and the Religious Outlook has been in touch. It 
may be worth while to make this clear by a few quota- 
tions from such correspondents. 

"In India leaders of educated circles asked the mission- 
aries to explain to them, very shortly after war had been 
declared, how it could be that two nations which had been 
so closely associated in missionary activity in India were 
now engaged in such a war with one another. At first it 
seemed as though this war were designed to act as a 
great obstacle to the progress of Christ's Kingdom in 
Asia." 

"The effect in China was at first decidedly adverse to 
Christianity. They considered that this was a quarrel 
among the Christian nations because of their jealousy of 
one another and that the boasted Christianity had failed 
to do any good in Europe. It had aroused in them pride 
in material advance and had done nothing more than 
Confucianism for the good of the world and indeed 
hardly as much." 

"The war made a wrong impression about Christianity, 
since the Japanese at large take the European countries 
as Christian nations and took the war as fighting between 
brothers in the same family, without making any dis- 
tinctions." 

"The moral breakdown of civilization involved in the 
deliberate planning of a war of world-conquest on the 
part of a group of reputedly Christian nations has not 
been without its unsetthng effect upon the educated men 
in all non-Christian countries. The evidence accumulates 
that the first outbreak of this war was widely heralded 
on the part of the press and the educated leaders in Asia 
as an evidence of the failure of Christianity." 



ENLARGED OUTLOOK OF MISSIONS 45 

As the war went on, however, and especially after the 
entry of the United States into the war, this attitude 
changed considerably. In most of the non-Christian 
lands there came to be a widespread impression that 
there was a genuine moral issue involved and that the 
Allies were fighting in support of the worthier ideal. 
Again quotations from our correspondents will illustrate 
the change in attitude : 

"The most thoughtful opinion among the Chinese was 
well voiced by an address delivered by a Christian 
Chinese to a group of government students, in which he 
set forth most vividly the incidents of the situation which 
placed the responsibility of the war upon the materialism 
of the world at the present time, particularly the material- 
ism of Germany." 

"We understand in Japan that it is the abuse of power 
that has come into conflict with the true spirit of civiliza- 
tion and respect for the rights of others, and that to 
maintain this men have been prepared to suffer and even 
make the great sacrifice." 

"The war has raised questions that such things should 
happen among Christian nations, but it has not in any 
way lowered the estimate of Christian standards." 

"As time went on, however, and the moral issues be- 
came more clearly understood, it was seen that the war 
was not a failure of Christianity but a failure of men to 
apply Christianity." 

"As the nature of the struggle became evident and the 
moral forces in Christian nations arose to meet the chal- 
lenge, the first impression was modified to such an extent 
that the missionaries in some countries reported that the 
war was actually producing a more open mind to the 
claims of Christianity and a clearer discrimination be- 
tween nominal and actual Christianity." 

We now have, therefore, a new occasion and a new 
responsibility for proclaiming that the only foundations 
of safety and ordered life of social groups, the nation, or 
the world, are the Christian principles of liberty, democ- 
racy, justice, cooperation, service, and love. Jesus' ideal 



46 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

of a universal Kingdom of God, based upon righteous- 
ness and love and compounded of all the nations, shines 
out with a new splendor and may be proclaimed with new 
conviction and meaning. The League of Nations and its 
need for the Christian spirit may become a text for a 
sermon in the remotest villages of India or Central 
Africa. 

The possibility either of a world-dominating nation- 
ality or of a nation existing in isolation seems to be 
shattered forever, so for the first time, perhaps, it is 
generally recognized that the most intensive devotion to 
the service of a nation is entirely compatible with the 
objective of a brotherhood of nations. Christian truths 
ought now, more than ever, to have their strongest 
appeal to the nations when stated in terms of their uni- 
versal application. It is a part of the missionary message 
in the new world situation that no nation can live as an 
end in itself, but must find its place in the family of na- 
tions, that the salvation of the nation is for the sake of 
the salvation of the world. 

IV. The Internationalizing of Christianity 

But we cannot hope to Christianize internationalism 
unless we thoroughly internationalize Christianity. In a 
day when the war has set our nation at large thinking in 
international terms and assuming responsibilities in world 
affairs, a day when world measurements have been laid 
upon all our thinking, the Christian teacher more than 
any other man cannot accept a national outlook as ade- 
quate. Both at home and abroad we must more deliber- 
ately seek to cultivate an international Christian con- 
sciousness. When an army of two million of our young 
men has gone on a "foreign mission" across the sea, we 
are better able to understand that whatever happens any- 
where is of significance everywhere, that if one member 
of the human family suffer, all suffer with it. The de- 
mand for international relief on a huge scale in the Near 



ENLARGED OUTLOOK OF MISSIONS 47 

East, as a result of the suffering caused by the war, is 
also a new witness to the missionary contention that we 
cannot now be indifferent to any part of the world. 

If the Church is really to develop such an international 
Christian consciousness, at least two things are necessary. 
We must have, in the first place, a full appreciation of 
the universal character of Christianity. We need to 
recognize far more deeply that, though it will find vary- 
ing expressions in different lands, there is at the heart of 
it a truth, an ideal, and a spirit of life which are indis- 
pensable to all mankind and to which the human heart 
will respond without distinction of East or West, border, 
or breed, or birth. In the second place, the missionary 
movement must become the concern of the whole Church. 
It must receive a support that it has never yet begun to 
have. When the task of foreign missions is conceived 
in the large way of which we have been speaking, it can 
no longer be thought of as the business simply of certain 
boards, or of missionaries, or of a somewhat limited 
group of saints. To be a Christian and to have the mis- 
sionary spirit become synonymous. 



PART II 

THE EFFECT OF THE WAR ON 

THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK 

IN VARIOUS LANDS 



CHAPTER V 

THE EFFECT OF THE WAR ON THE VITALITY 
OF THE NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS 

War powerfully arouses all the personal and social 
emotions. On the one hand it stirs those lower, or less 
worthy, emotions which the distinctly ethical religions 
seek to suppress. On the other hand, it enhances the 
higher, nobler emotions which are fostered by the very 
best that there is in religion. Thus, in every organized 
religion war produces varied, and even contrary, effects, 
which must frankly be recognized as both quickening and 
deadening to that particular religion, as well as to the 
cause of religion as a whole. 

The main logical demonstration of the recent Great 
War doubtless seems to the staunch Christian to have 
been the inadequacy of any religion except Christianity 
to save the world. Yet the war has also evoked in unex- 
pected quarters certain remarkably progressive religious 
phenomena. However inconsistent these may be with 
their own past, yet some of them may be recognized as 
the workings of the Spirit of God. Both sets of facts 
must be grasped, in order to appreciate the new com- 
plexities and also the new responsibilities of Christian 
missions after the war. 

I. Hinduism 

Two hundred and seventeen millions of our fellowmen 
in India are organized under a religious system which 
teaches theoretically that the highest aim of life is to live 
in mystical union with an impersonal, non-moral Su- 
preme Being, called Brahma. But practically Hinduism 



52 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

consists mainly in conformity to traditional religious 
ceremonies and to caste exclusiveness. Religiously the 
Hindus are not expected to give loyalty to any superior 
Being or to any group that is distinctly moral.^ 

A. Evidence of Revival 

Even more unpredictable and remarkable than the 
loyalty of India to Great Britain during the war was the 
emergence in some circles of Hindu thought of another 
higher and wider loyalty — a loyalty to the religious in- 
terests of all of the caste-divided Hindus, and even a 
regard for the religious interests of the entire world. 

After two years of the World War a prominent Ameri- 
can publishing house put forth a book on comparative 
religion which was distinctly a war book, namely, 
Harendranath Maitra's "Hinduism, the World-Ideal," 
with an introduction by G. K. Chesterton. ^ The Hindu 
author makes certain criticisms of Western Christendom 
which are all too true. But the description which he 
offers of Hinduism is ninety-nine per cent the idealized 
imagination of a religionist who, as is indicated by his 
quotations from the Bible, has received far more than 
he appreciates from Jesus Christ. The Hinduism which 
is described in this book is not existent in India, nor has it 
ever been existent there to any appreciable extent. How- 
ever, the significance of the book is not its historical accu- 
racy or inaccuracy, but the appeal which this Hindu makes 
to his own co-religionists and to the world at large for a 
religion characterized by the love of God and by service 
to humanity. At the beginning and the conclusion are 
passionate appeals for India to give salvation unto all the 



1 In the Upanishads, which are the most authoritative theo- 
logical scriptures of Hinduism, the sense of moral guilt and of 
moral responsibility is explicitly canceled for the knower of 
the pantheistic Brahma, e.g., "Sacred Books of the East," vol. I, 
pp. 67, 84, 91, 130, 267-277, 293-294; vol. II, pp. 63, 168-169, 180, 
199, 217, 282. 

2 New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1916, 137 pages. 



THE NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS 53 

world through supplying a true universal spiritual reli- 
gion. The following quotations are typical : 

"In studying Western civilization, I have felt that 
there is something lacking. This something India has" 
(p. vii). 

"If we want to avert all future wars, even the possi- 
bility of war, we must humbly sit on a prayer-rug some- 
times, instead of always rushing about in motor-cars. 
This rushing about always, without the corresponding 
poise and balance within, is the cause of this war of 
Armageddon" (p. viii, similarly again on p. 2). 

"The West is not, and never has been, Christian 

India loves Christ. She does not love Christianity; for 
she sees very little relation between the two" (p. 4). 

Statements that Hinduism teaches God as Love : pp. 30, 
36, 41, 42, 125. 

Statements that Hinduism teaches service to humanitv : 
pp. 54-55, 68-70, 79-81, 120-128, 129-137. 

By as much as action for a new ideal is more signifi- 
cant than merely talk of a new ideal, there occurred a 
more noteworthy event in India one year later than the 
publication of a Hindu propaganda book in New York. 
The "Hindu Missionary Society" was founded in Bom- 
bay on an especially auspicious day, the Full Moon of 
July, 1917. Its three "working principles" are as follows : 

a. He who calls himself a Hindu is a Hindu. 

b. Any person wishing to come into Hinduism may be 
admitted to its fold. 

c. The religious status of all Hindus is the same. 
Each one of these three propositions is contrary to the 

history of Hinduism during its approximately 3,000 years 
since the Vedic period. The editor of The Hindu Mis- 
sionary (the weekly organ of the movement) says 
frankly (April 7, 1919, p. 2) : "We are advocating a new 
position in Hinduism. We do not pretend that the Shas- 
tra (i.e., the sacred scriptures of Hinduism) is wholly 
on our side; we believe that God is on our side. The 
idea is new; but, Sir, it is great. It is needed to save 
Hinduism from death." 



54 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

"To make the whole world Hindu" is the definite slo- 
gan of this revivification of Hinduism which has been 
affected by the introduction of much of the Christian 
spirit. 

The work of revivifying Hinduism is also being prose- 
cuted by three other similar reforming and proselytizing 
Hindu missionary journals, which are conducted in the 
vernacular at Kolhapur, Allahabad, and Srinagar. 

B. Evidence of Weakening 

The foregoing and other reform movements in Hindu- 
ism have been consciously organized as an attempt to 
offset the glaring fact, substantiated in the last Decennial 
Census of India, that, in relation to the population as a 
whole and — more markedly — in relation to other reli- 
gions, Hinduism is losing its hold in India. Whereas the 
Christian community increased five times as much as the 
natural increase, and whereas the Mohammedans also 
increased slightly, the Hindus, even though numbering 
217,000,000, were diminishing by one per cent. 

While Hindus have been relinquishing their religion 
in greater numbers than ever before, there has also been 
greater expression of dissatisfaction among those who 
have remained in their ancestral religious group.^ The 
most eminent Hindu of western India, Sir Narayan 
Chandavarkar, who has been Justice of the High Court 
of Bombay and Vice-Chancellor of Bombay University, 
as well as head of the Prarthana Samaj (the reform 
movement within Hinduism in western India), has de- 
clared : "The ideas that lie at the heart of the Gospel of 
Christ are slowly, but surely, permeating every part of 
Hindu society, and are modifying every phase of Hindu 
thought."^ 



^ See the collection of such criticisms which have been assem- 
bled in J. N. Farquhar's "The Crown of Hinduism." 

4 J. N. Farquhar's "Modern Religious Movements in India,' 
p. 445. 



THE NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS 55 

These tendencies constitute striking evidence of the 
penetrating effect of Christianity among Hindus — far 
beyond numerical results in reportable baptisms. Yet 
they also constitute a new peril to the progress of Chris- 
tianity in India, namely, that many progressive Hindus 
will adopt a few features of Christianity, and then remain 
the more immovably in their somewhat improved Neo- 
Hinduism. 

The greatest direct rupture which the Great War has 
effected in Hinduism is the increased negligence of caste 
— ^the observance of which has been the one and only 
unmistakable test of a person's being a Hindu. The ap- 
proximately one million Indians who went overseas dur- 
ing the war — most of them Hindus — were forced to live 
and fight together, irrespective of previous social status. 
The still larger number of Hindus who remained at home 
and there helped to meet the national and international 
exigency perceived something they had never perceived 
before, namely, that one essential of any large success is 
interpersonal and intergroup cooperation. But extensive 
cooperation for an inclusive, serviceful purpose is a prin- 
ciple which is quite the opposite of the exclusiveness and 
divisiveness of the caste system in Hinduism. 

II. Shinto 

In the World War the only non-Christian nation which 
was in equal alliance with the United States and the 
European Entente was Japan. Its immemorial national 
religion, Shinto, is a system which is connected with 
nature-worship, but whose essence, in a word, is loyalty. 
Shinto teaches that religion consists chiefly in loyalty to 
the supreme in every sphere of life — loyalty to the head 
of the family, to the head of the clan, and, preeminently, 
to the head of the nation. The Mikado, according to 
theoretical Shinto, is to be regarded as the incarnation of 
deity. 



56 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

A. Evidence of Revival 

The theory of a genealogical descent of the Mikado 
from the Sun-Goddess Ameratasu has been decidedly- 
weakened in Japan by the modern scientific and historical 
spirit. However, Shinto has been revived in terms of the 
very latest development in internationalism, according to 
the following translation of an extract from a Japanese 
newspaper, The Niroku, which appeared in the Japan 
Daily Advertiser ofMay9,1919: 

"To promote the world's peace and the welfare of man- 
kind is the mission of the Imperial Family of Japan. 
Heaven has invested the Imperial Family with all the 
qualifications necessary to fulfil this mission. The Im- 
perial Family of Japan is as worthy of respect as God, 
and is the embodiment of benevolence and justice. The 
great principle of the Imperial Family is to make popular 
interests paramount. The Imperial Family is the parent, 
not only of his sixty millions, but of all mankind on earth. 
All human disputes, therefore, may be settled in accord- 
ance with its immaculate justice. The League of Na- 
tions, which has been proposed to save mankind from the 
horrors of war, can only attain its real object by placing 
at its head the Imperial Family of Japan; for, to attain 
its object, the League must have a strong punitive force 
of a super-national, super-racial character ; and this force 
can be found only in the Imperial Family of Japan." 

Thus in Japan, perhaps for the first time in history, 
there is now reinterpreted in terms of benevolent serv- 
ice the idea of the divine right of hereditary kings, 
which with the overthrow of the Manchu, Romanoff, 
Hapsburg, and Hohenzollern dynasties has been dis- 
carded everywhere else in the world. For the religion 
of Shinto the remarkable new development is that, for 
the first time in its history of two and a half millenniums, 
the ideal of religious loyalty has been extended by some 
thinkers to include religious privileges and responsibilities 
for all the other nations of the world. 

At the same time the claim is being made for Shinto 
that it must become the universal religion. Dr. Kakehi, 



THE NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS 57 

a professor in the Imperial University of Japan, has been 
propagating such a revival of Shinto through his books 
entitled ''Ko-Shinto Taigi" and "Zoku Ko-Shinto 
Taigi/" whose leading principles are summarized as fol- 
lows : 

"The Japanese are the chosen people of God, and the 
presence of God is especially manifested in the Em- 
peror of Japan. Shinto is logically destined to be the 
universal religion and the saving culture of mankind. 
The duty of the Japanese people and of the Emperor of 
Japan is to spread that religion and culture, until the Em- 
peror of Japan shall become the supreme temporal and 
spiritual ruler of the world. This conquest of the world 
is to be made by peaceful means ; but it seems reasonable 
that, if peaceful means fail, the power of might may be 
tried."^ 

Remarkable is it how in this nation which had helped 
to overthrow Germany there reappears the characteristi- 
cally Prussian idea of a superior Kultur which may prop- 
erly accomplish world domination through violent, if not 
through peaceful, means. Japan was a nation which for 
two hundred and fifty years (i.e., until forced open by 
Commodore Perry in 1853) had maintained rigorous ex- 
clusiveness from the rest of the world. It is both encour- 
aging and alarming that through the stress of the Great 
War the program is now proposed that the people of 
Japan and the Emperor of Japan must strive to accom- 
plish the redemption of the world, as best they can con- 
ceive it through their religion. 

B. Evidence of Weakening 

About thirty years ago the president of the Imperial 
University of Tokyo at a meeting of the Society of 
Sciences in 1890 "expressed the opinion that Shinto 
should not be regarded as a religion." The outworking 
of such an attitude towards Shinto is appropriately dis- 
closed in a religious census of that same Imperial Uni- 

« Quoted in The Biblical World, July, 1919, p. 434. 



58 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

versity of Tokyo which shows the reHgious professions 
of the students as follows :® 

Shintoists 8 

Buddhists 50 

Christians 60 

Atheists 1,500 

Agnostics 3,000 

Although in the past a fairly admirable moral code, 
known as Bushido, has been developed in connection with 
Shinto, yet it is clear that the influence of Shinto has 
been waning in modern Japan. Even the Bushido code 
now seems to have lost something of its prestige, since 
as a result of the World War the heroic qualities of other 
peoples have been recognized^ 

HI. Confucianism 

The purpose of Confucius might almost be summarized 
in the words, to establish "peace on earth, good will 
among men." The desired reign of peace was to be 
accomplished under the supervision of Heaven by each 
human being observing reciprocal propriety towards all 
other persons with whom he comes in contact. The uni- 
versalism which is inherent in Confucianism has never 
been applied elsewhere than in China and in her neighbor 
Japan, where indeed Confucianism has been a very influ- 
ential cultural agency. But the World War, by forcing 
China into more intimate international relations, has 
brought into more conscious application the inherent uni- 
versalism of Confucianism's outlook. 

A. Evidence of Revival 

Thirty years ago a Confucianist leader, Kang Yu Wei, 
published a book which definitely propounded a league of 
nations as the characteristic Confucian world view. 



6 M. S. Terry's "The Shinto Cult," p. 10. 

7 Cf. pp. 110, 111 of this volume. 



THE NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS 59 

He felt that the idea of the Chinese state was the highest 
possible idea, needing only to be applied on a wider scale. 
In Millard's Review of the Far East (Shanghai, March 
8, 1919) there appeared an article entitled "The Confu- 
cian Ideal of Perfect Peace" by Chen Huan-Chang, which 
sets forth a proposal of universal peace on Confucian 
lines. He begins as follows : 

"While European scholars advocate nationalism, Chi- 
nese scholars advocate universalism. The time appears 
to have arrived when universalism should replace na- 
tionalism, and the Confucian principles of perfect peace 
should be put into practice. It is our duty to persuade 
the world to accept these principles." 

After a quotation from Confucius' book "Spring and 
Autumn Annals," this Chinese author proceeds to sketch 
in twenty-five sections a scheme of universal government 
based upon righteousness and brotherliness of nations 
which shall so completely surpass everything both in the 
past and in the present that 

"The year in which the Universal Government shall be 
established shall be considered the first year of the Uni- 
versal Era. The different methods of counting years 
which are peculiar to religions and nations are to be con- 
tinuously used only by those particular religions or 
nations, and not to be used universally. 

"The above is an outline of general principles derived 
from the teachings of Confucius. Peking, February 28, 
1919." 

The author, it may be added, holds the degree of Ph.D. 
from Columbia University in the city of New York; he 
is a member of the Chinese Parliament, the founder and 
president of the National Confucian Association, and the 
protagonist of an unsuccessful attempt to make Confu- 
cianism the established reHgion in the Constitution of the 
Republic of China. 

There was recently started in the province of Szechuan, 
but now having strong centers in Peking and elsewhere, 
a society which aims to promote the worship of the God 



60 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

of all religions from the Confucian basis. The following 
is a summary of an article which appeared originally in 
the Asiatic Review for April, 1919, giving a reinterpreta- 
tion of the Confucian conception of God.^ 

"In the matter of theism Confucianism knows nothing 
of the manlike gods of other races, which are pleased 
with sacrifices and peace-offerings and are expected to 
perform miracles. The difference between the Bible 
Jehovah and Shang-Ti is that the latter is not credited 
with capricious and unreasonable things. The true wor- 
ship of the Confucian God is by deeds, not words. God 
does not need our advice. The disappearance of an- 
thropomorphic theism is a natural outcome of the teach- 
ings of Confucius. When Christianity is purged of its 
Pauline interpretation, it will resemble Confucianism. 
Meanwhile Confucianists may feel confident that the sys- 
tem of ethics handed down by the Sage will pass un- 
scathed through the crucible of modern thought, and will 
come out of it thoroughly purified and with its luster 
undiminished." 

It should be mentioned that Dr. Lim Boon Keng, the 
author of the foregoing attempt to revive Confucianism, 
had so far come under Christian influences as to be bap- 
tized in Hongkong, but that he has returned to his an- 
cestral religion. 

There have also been other reawakenings in Confu- 
cianism. There was an old Chinese philosopher. Mo Ti, 
who taught the principle of universal love, in opposition 
to the strict Confucian principle of reciprocity. During 
the World War his writings have been largely reprinted 
in China and bought both by Christians and by non-Chris- 
tians. 

The war has stimulated not only the progressive 
liberals among Confucianists but also the reactionaries. 
The latter, upheld by the Japanese Government's mili- 
taristic policy, have revived the worship of Kuan-Ti, the 
God of War in popular Confucianism; and they have 
even added another militaristic deity, Yueh Fei. 



8 Condensed in The Biblical World, July, 1919, pp. 434-436. 



THE NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS 61 

B. Evidence of Weakening 

Confucianism was organized in an era of feudalism. 
Its method of maintaining peace was to maintain the Five 
Relationships into which Confucius analyzed all possible 
inter-human relationships, viz., ruler and ruled, husband 
and wife, parent and child, older and younger brother, 
and friend and friend. Confucius did formulate the rule 
of reciprocity. "Do not to others what you would not 
like yourself."® While the form of these words approxi- 
mates the Golden Rule enunciated by Jesus, the fairly 
consistent interpretation of the Confucian principle of 
reciprocity has been aristocratic: that is, each individual 
should decorously maintain his end of the superior-in- 
ferior relationship which characterizes four-fifths of life, 
only one-fifth of these relationships of life, that of friends, 
being one of equality. Such a theory of aristocratic 
domination harmonizes little with democratic principles. 

Furthermore, the retrospective ideal of Confucianism 
is incompatible with China's modern progressive ideal. 
The distinct purpose of that great patriot reformer Con- 
fucius in a time of sore social distress and relapse was 
to restore the pristine peace and glory of ancient China. 

"Follow the ancients. Walk in the trodden paths. Let 
today be as yesterday, and in no way different from the 
customs and practices of the ancestors. As the fathers 
did, so must the children do. No generation may esteem 
itself better than the past. They must deem worthy what 
their fathers have deemed worthy, and love only what 
their fathers have loved."^^ 

Both consciously and unconsciously the progressive 
modern Chinese have quite abandoned the ideal of stag- 
nant conservatism which Confucianism has explicitly 
prescribed. Ancestor-worship is being omitted. Confu- 
cian temples are being deserted. Can the old Confucian 



» "Analects of Confucius" 15.23, and again similarly in 5.11 
and 12.2; also in Mencius* "Doctrine of the Mean" 13.3 and in 
"The Great Learning," 10 : 2. 

1^ The Great Learning, 3.5. 



62 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

classics and religious ideals be revived by a process of 
reinterpretation, in order to furnish the necessary basis 
for the new democratic and progressive movement which 
has made its way into China from closer contacts with 
the rest of the world? 

IV. Buddhism 

The religion which had the honor of being the first to 
overpass national boundaries and become international 
was Buddhism. It was the example of the devoted 
founder, and not the teachings of Buddha, which sent 
that heretical offshoot from Hinduism into all "The 
East." Theoretically Buddhism requires renunciation of 
the world, which is evanescent, worthless, painfully 
miserable. And at present Buddhists are all but indiffer- 
ent to the world, even to the World War. 

A. Evidence of Revival 

The Buddhist King of Siam, the only country in the 
world, besides self-isolated Thibet, which maintains 
Buddhism as the established religion, was one of the first 
of the minor monarchs to join the European Entente 
Allies. Promptly after the signing of the armistice of 
November 11, 1918, he issued a Royal Proclamation, 
which attributed the winning of the war to the favor of 
Buddhist deities: 

"People of Siam! Now that the great blessing of 
peace has returned to the world, we ourselves as follow- 
ers of the Holy Buddhist Religion hold the belief that the 
Holy Buddhist Trinity, which we all revere and daily 
worship, and the Virtues of the departed Monarchs who 
have been protectors of the Siamese Nation in the past, 
have aided in the achievement of the victory ; therefore, 
on the second of December, which is the anniversary of 
My Coronation I will proceed to the Royal Plaza in the 
center of the Capital; and together with the Princes of 
the Royal House, the officials of the Government, the 
officers and men of my Army and Navy, and corps of 
Wild Tiger Scouts, will there offer up a Thanksgiving 



THE NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS 63 

Prayer to the Holy Emerald Image of our Lord Buddha, 
and pay reverence to the Royal Statues of the Monarchs 
of the last five reigns which are enshrined in the precincts 
of the Royal Temples, and invoke the Holy Buddhist 
Trinity and the Virtues of My Royal Ancestors to pro- 
tect and safeguard our Siamese Nation and all the nations 
with whom we are allied, and vouchsafe to us a lasting 
peace and happiness." 

Such are the devotion and propaganda of the chief Bud- 
dhist ruler in the world at present, King Rama of Siam, 
who was educated in Oxford University and has traveled 
widely in Europe and America. Not four months before 
the outbreak of the World War, in a speech to his "Wild 
Tiger Scouts" on April 25, 1914, he had declared : 

"I have examined all the religions myself, and I believe 
the Buddha religion to be the best. I know about the 
Christian religion better than some foreigners do, because 
I was educated in Europe, where I studied Christianity 
and passed an examination and got first honors in it."^^ 

So far as reports have come to us there does not seem 
to be special evidence of a revivification of Buddhism 
as a direct eflFect of the war elsewhere than in Siam, 
although for some time past the Buddhists of Japan have 
been actively imitating Christian propaganda. 

B. Evidence of Weakening 

After a brilliant career of one thousand years in India, 
Buddhism was evicted from the land of its birth, where 
(according to the last "General Report of the Census 
of 1911," p. 125) there are only about 2,000 survivors of 
purely Indian Buddhism. There are more or less active 
Buddhist sects elsewhere in the Far East, particularly 
in Japan. The foremost European authority on this reli- 
gion. Professor Thomas W. Rhys Davids of University 
College. London, in his learned compendium avers that 



1^ Quoted by Dr. Robert E. Speer in the Report of Deputa- 
tion Sent by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian 
Church in 1915, p. 35. 



64 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

"not one of the five hundred millions who offer flowers 
now and then on Buddhist shrines, who are more or less 
moulded by Buddhist teaching, is only or altogether a 
Buddhist."^ 

If strictly loyal to the original teaching to renounce 
altogether the miserableness of life in this worthless 
world, Buddhism cannot consistently seek to improve the 
world in any way whatsoever. 

V. Mohammedanism 

Of all the non-Christian religions in the world, the one 
which has been the most vitally connected with the World 
War, and the one which will perhaps undergo the 
greatest transformation as the result of the war, is Mo- 
hammedanism. Its chief cities, Mecca and Medina, Cairo 
and Constantinople, have all been located within the zone 
of the war. Its official head made an ex cathedra appeal 
to the whole body of adherents of that religion through^ 
out the world, as has not been the case in any other reli- 
gion. Followers of the ruthless fighting Prophet of 
Arabia have, however, been found on both sides of the 
world conflict. 

Inasmuch as the present volume contains (Chapter 
XII) a separate treatment of this important subject, the 
present chapter will merely mention that there have been 
recent evidences of revival in Mohammedanism, such as 
the remarkable spread of Islam in Africa before the war, 
the Pan-Islamic movement before the war, the revival 
of the original Moslem power in Arabia, viz., the King- 
dom of the Hijaz; and, on the other hand, evidences 
of weakening, such as the long steady decline of Moham- 
medanism in its old strongholds, the failure of the Holy 
War {Jihad), and the downfall of the nominal Head of 
Islam, the Turkish Sultan. 

Mohammedanism teaches that each individual's duty 



12 "Buddhism, A Sketch of the Life and Teachings of Gautama 
the Buddha," p. 7. 



THE NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS 65 

is to give submission (islam) to Allah, and that it is the 
duty of those who have thus submitted themselves (Mos- 
lems) to attempt to subjugate all other people to the 
same inscrutable, non-moral God of power, or else to ex- 
terminate the non-Moslems. This spirit will not pass 
away from the world until mankind has been organized 
into a nobler moral ideal. However, the latest develop- 
ments in this organized system are significant. 

A. Evidence of Revival 

As a concrete instance of the active interest which some 
Mohammedans are taking in world improvement and 
world peace there may be quoted part of a letter which 
has been circulated in the public press of America. It 
was written on June 18, 1919, from Haifa, Syria, by 
Abdul Baha Abbas, who is the present head of the Baha- 
ist sect of Mohammedans, and addressed to a person 
whom he had met on a visit to the United States. 

"To the Honourable William Sulzer, Ex-Governor of 
New York : Greetings ! O thou who art the well-wisher 
of humanity, f ehcitations ! 

"I am hopeful that in accordance with the teachings 
of Baha'o'llah there shall soon be established a Great 
Tribunal, the membership of which shall be composed of 
the best men and women from all the Governments of 
the earth. This Great Tribunal must be the guarantor 
of universal peace. The present is the beginning of the 
dawn of universal peace 

"The question of universal peace is only one of the 
principles of the teachings of Baha'o'llah. These teach- 
ings have other principles that make them complete. 
.... Through the favour of the True One and by the 
Word of God, I pray that the League of Nations shall 
soon become a fact, that universal peace shall thenceforth 
be established, and that then the brotherhood of man shall 
be recognized." 

B. Evidence of Weakening 

As an indication of the many relapses on a large scale 



66 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

which have taken place in Mohammedanism there may 
be quoted the following summary : 

"Speaking only of events of very recent years — the 
French occupation of Morocco, the Italian conquest of 
Tripoli, the Anglo-Russian agreement with reference to 
Persia, the defeat of Turkey by the Balkan States, the 
dethronement of the Khedive, the successful rebellion of 
Arabia constitute a series of catastrophes unparalleled in 
the history of Islam. The end of Moslem rule in the 
world may be nearly as swift and spectacular as was its 
beginning. "^^ 

Conclusion 

The World War has produced stirrings of new life, 
not only in Christendom, but also in practically every 
organized religion in the world. Many of these advances 
in other religions have received their impulse from Chris- 
tianity, but they lack the complete ideal and the dynamic 
which Christians prize preeminently in the Lord Jesus 
Christ. However, it is now, as never before, a race be- 
tween religions for the possession of the world. Some 
of the signs of revivification which have appeared in the 
non-Christian religions may seem alarming. Yet may we 
not be reassured and stimulated by realizing that in these 
signs of revived vitality we can see the Holy Spirit of 
God working in quarters where previously people had 
not been attentive to the divine call to go forth into all 
the world and preach to every creature the best gospel 
which they themselves have received? Never has the 
situation been so complicated, so solemnizing, so hopeful 
for the world-wide establishment of the Christian religion 
evidenced both by revivifyings and weakenings in the 
non-Christian rehgions. 



13 E. C. Moore's "The Spread of Christianity in the Modern 
World," pp. 211, 212. 



CHAPTER VI 

THE WAR AND NEW INFLUENCES AMONG 
ORIENTAL WOMEN 

1. There has been an awakening of a world conscious- 
ness among the women of the Orient directly traceable 
to the World War. 

How momentous a change this is will be fully appre- 
ciated only if we realize at the outset that in certain large 
areas these women had not yet awakened even to a na- 
tional consciousness. For many of them the tribal life 
had been all. In her "African Adventurers" Jean Mac- 
kenzie reports the following conversation between a 
young school boy and his mother. 

"They say we live in Africa," said Mejo. 

"Who says so ?" asked his mother. 

"The teacher says so," said Mejo. 

"What kind of a teacher says so — is it the white man 
or one of the black people ?" 

"Even if it were a black teacher — and it was, it was 
Ela from Asok — will you doubt it? He heard it from 
the white man." 

"Was it a word from God?" asked Me jo's mother. 
"Did Ela read God's Word that we live in Africa ?" 

"Well, then," said Mejo's mother, "I don't believe it. 
I who have lived in this forest always, did I ever hear 
that we live in Africa? What the old and the wise of 
the tribe never knew, how can the white man know it — 
who is a stranger of yesterday? If you ask me where 
we live I will still tell you that we live in the country of 
the Bulu tribes. It is just pride that is in all this teaching 
that Ela teaches." 

Suddenly, in 1914, at the sound of guns on the frontiers 
of France, men of all races were summoned to forget 
their own peoples and boundaries and to offer their lives 



68 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

in a world war. The women of Africa, India, China, and 
the islands of the sea sent husbands, sons, and brothers to 
the army of the Allies, and their hearts ran swiftly with 
their men. Even from the barred windows of harem 
and zenana there opened up a new world outlook. 

The war resolved itself into a great living geography 
lesson to millions of women of the East, In some of their 
communities foreign soldiers were lodged. From these 
and from the returning soldiers, with their wonderful 
tales of other lands, were brought new conceptions of 
the world to the women who for centuries had thought 
in terms of their own locality only. The countries of 
people who had hitherto been known only as white men, 
foreigners, or by less complimentary titles, have now 
become almost as real as their own. The foreign soil 
on which their men had fought and died could no longer 
be utterly remote from them. A Hindu woman, Sarojini 
Naidu, has voiced the new song of the women of the East 
who have shared in the sorrow of the world : 

"Gathered like pearls in their alien graves. 
Silent they sleep by the Persian waves. 
Scattered like shells on Egyptian sands 
They lie with pale brows, and brave, broken hands, 
They are scattered like blossoms mown down by 

chance. 
On the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and 
France." 

To help the men who had gone away the women of the 
Orient joined together, even as here, to do their part. 
In thousands of little villages groups of them met by 
the well to work for the soldiers through Red Cross and 
Red Crescent societies. And often while they worked, 
a foreign woman spoke to them of the work women in 
other lands were doing and then as a result, minds 
jumped across chasms of custom and years, especially 
when they knew a common sorrow. It is interesting to 
learn, however, that even the enlarged outlook and the 



INFLUENCES ON ORIENTAL WOMEN 69 

common peril and sacrifice do not yet seem to have made 
definite impression on the caste system in India. There 
these Red Cross groups held rigidly to their caste separa- 
tion, meeting separately. But there were Oriental women 
who went further than this in their deeds of mercy. A 
group of Japanese women sent helpers and money into 
Siberia to minister to the refugees, and a group of Chi- 
nese nurses, under the leadership of a missionary doctor, 
went to that same land to give relief. Such endeavors 
as these in behalf of their men far away could not fail 
to awaken both the national and the international con- 
sciousness — which result was also stimulated, particularly 
in Japan, by the many columns in the newspapers dealing 
with the situation in other lands. 

2. A second important influence of the war on women 
in the Orient has been an increasing sense of feminine 
freedom, which will in time make for a universal social 
democracy. 

Even in the West we have recognized this new stimu- 
lus to freedom, though we had thought Western women 
were emancipated before the war, and have observed 
them courageously undertaking untried tasks. There 
has come, too, in Western lands greater political free- 
dom, with votes for women — meaning ultimately far 
more than votes. It is here and in a trice it will be 
there. In the papers but a few weeks ago we read of an 
appeal for suffrage for the women of India presented 
in the British Parliament from Sarojini Naidu, the poet 
quoted above. What wonder that the bond slaves of 
India cry out ! Yet only one per cent of India's women 
can read — which indicates the peril of granting unlimited 
political power at the present time. 

The new freedom of women in the East is manifesting 
itself socially. Although there is still distrust of women 
and the dominance of man is shown in the seclusion of 
the women of the better classes in most parts of the 



70 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

East, and in the virtual slavery of them all, they are 
breaking away and in many cases men themselves are 
leading in the reform and demanding, instead of slaves, 
educated companions. Many of the women have found 
that they possess powers of which they had not known. 
They are not willing, once having made the discovery, 
to settle back into the old inactivity and monotony. Many 
others, tired of the old work and its scale of living, are 
seeking new sensations. There is a new valuation of 
women both by women themselves and by the community, 
expressed in a sentence of an address given by a Japanese 
statesman, "Every thinking person realizes that no nation 
rises above its womanhood." 

3. There is a rising concern among Eastern women 
in social questions. 

The interest in social problems has developed further 
during the war. Margaret Burton in her "Women 
Workers of the Orient" tells of Chinese women who at 
the time of the Revolution actually organized companies 
for military drill and when advised by wise leaders to 
desist turned their efforts to the gentle art of making 
bombs. In China there are now at least ten special ob- 
jects toward which various societies work. They are the 
abolition of foot-binding, the education of women, the 
prohibition of concubinage, the forbidding of child mar- 
riages, reforms in regard to prostitution, social service 
for women in industry, the encouragement of modesty 
in dress, better terms of marriage leading toward mar- 
riages for love, the establishment of political rights, and 
the general elevation of the position of women in the 
family and the home. Far from attainment, how sad a 
commentary on the life of the vast majority of Oriental 
women is this advanced program of social progress! 

There is an increased and hopeful interest in health 
and sanitation. In countries where there are so few 
physicians that the vast majority of women are born, 



INFLUENCES ON ORIENTAL WOMEN 71 

live, suffer, and die with absolutely no medical aid it is 
comforting to realize that help is at hand. In these 
countries, where men may not give medical aid to women, 
there are now a few women physicians — 159 women doc- 
tors to 150,000,000 women in India, ninety-three to 200,- 
000,000 women in China. Through their few mission 
hospitals trained nurses are working miracles of healing. 
The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cared for, suffer- 
ing motherhood is comforted. The news spreads from 
hovel to hovel and from palace to palace. 

"Is it a little thing that she hath wrought ? 
Then life and death and motherhood be naught." 

Today women are establishing medical schools where 
hundreds and thousands of Indian and Chinese women 
are to receive training as physicians and nurses and learn 
the principles of sanitation and public health. The Gov- 
ernment of India has recognized the pitiful need which 
only Christian women physicians can meet and has 
pledged one-half the maintenance of the new medical 
school opened a year ago in Vellore, through the union 
of American and British boards under the leadership of 
Dr. Ida Scudder. It guaranteed this help if six women 
should enter as students. Sixty-nine young Indian 
women applied for entrance when the school opened. 
Only eighteen could be admitted. Fourteen of these 
went up for examination this summer and took the high- 
est rank in Madras Presidency. This year there are 
eighty-five eager applicants. New influences these, for 
the women of the Orient, to be multiplied we trust a 
thousand-fold, for there is no battlefield in all the world 
where the sum of human suffering is so great as on this 
battlefield of motherhood, and in the East those who 
die in these trenches are not even women, but broken 
flowers of childhood. 

During the past five years we have seen remarkable 
advance also along educational lines. In India, China, 



72 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

and Japan colleges for women have come into existence, 
perhaps in spite of the war rather than because of it. 
We may look for their foundations and the beginnings 
of the "divine discontent" among Oriental women in 
the days following our Civil War, when women's boards 
of foreign missions were organized. When American 
women, touched to a new pity through their loss and 
suffering in the war, first realized the conditions of 
Oriental women's lives, there were no schools for girls 
in the East anywhere. When the first village schools 
opened, no one dreamed of colleges for women within 
fifty years nor of the remarkable social program of the 
Young Women's Christian Association. From the little 
mud schoolhouse has come an ever increasing army of 
girls on the march up the hill of education from primary 
and secondary school on to normal school, college, and 
professional school. These women are to provide the 
leadership for the women of the East. 

It is a sign of particular hopefulness in the educational 
movements of the Orient that the student class is think- 
ing more in the terms of everyday life and the service 
of the hour. No one who has followed the student move- 
ment in China can fail to realize its importance and the 
grave situation unless this and similar movements in 
India and Japan become Christian. 

4. Economic conditions in the East mark a new era 
for women and entail a hundred new dangers. 

According to type, the woman in the Orient has all 
through the years of her history given time and vitality 
to the making of the necessities of life. Whether that 
contribution has been made in the field or home there has 
been no question as to her ability, her indispensableness, 
and her giving without stint. Today there are new neces- 
sities and she is adapting her energy to meet them. But 
we have learned in this free world for women in America 
some of the perils accompanying the entrance of women 



INFLUENCES ON ORIENTAL WOMEN 73 

into commercial and industrial life. Present-day methods 
are different from the leisurely methods of the old East 
and it is after the factory method of the tense, rushing 
West that the Eastern woman is being exploited today. 

In Sivas there are 5,000 workers in rug factories, many 
of them women, many children almost too young to speak. 
Their working hours are from five in the morning to six 
in the evening and in summer from four in the morning 
to eight at night. The reports of certain mills in India 
complacently state that the law does not permit women 
to work more than eleven hours, thus giving them ample 
time for their domestic duties morning and evening. In 
India many a worn operator refuses to leave her machine 
at noon, too exhausted to do anything but lie down beside 
the iron monster that, combined with long hours and bad 
air, is grinding out her life and weakening all her chil- 
dren for generations to come. Will the whisper of a 
living wage and humane hours never come to her ? Will 
she never rebel? Some feel that that day is not far 
distant. 

In progressive Japan, where 34,000 girls are working 
in the coal mines, a record worse even than that of the 
Indian mills reveals 130 plants where the girls work from 
five in the morning till ten at night with an hour of 
rest at noon, in return for which they receive in addition 
to food and clothing, wages of about forty cents a month. 
This, of course, is an extreme situation, but Mr. Fisher's 
report on 305 factories in Tokyo a few years ago showed 
that only one-third of the women received as much as 
five dollars per month, working twelve hours a day seven 
days a week. The wages of factory women are some- 
what higher now but still pitiably low. There are no 
Sabbaths in that man-made, machine-managed world. 
Night work is common and crowded conditions lead to 
tuberculosis. The conditions are intolerable, physically 
and morally. One of the mill overseers remarked, "We 
own the bodies, minds, and souls of those girls." 



74 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

In Japan new thoughts, new temptations, new relation- 
ships are forcing themselves upon the half million of 
women who make up its industrial army. Three-fifths 
of them are under twenty years of age and every year 
200,000 come in from the country to take the places of 
those who have left for various reasons. Thousands are 
incapacitated before the end of a year. What are the 
thoughts that press in upon these tired, often homesick 
women? Do they willingly become machines or do their 
fatigue and eventual dismissal result in smouldering re- 
sentment? Already there are indications that Eastern 
endurance has its limits. Many are already recognizing 
that labor unprotected and without the fortification of 
custom and understanding presents a grave problem. 
Both laborer and thinker are disturbed. Will the result 
be for good or ill ? 

China's women always have had clever fingers and to 
a marked degree they have been producers. When de- 
mand made machinery and the factory a necessity they 
became part of the organization and hundreds of thou- 
sands labor today in the industrial world. Unprotected 
by any law, they pour out life's energy into the making 
of silk, cotton, boxes, paper, and the like, with hours 
beyond their strength and wages insufficient for their 
barest needs. Already there are some among the people 
of China who see the folly of such expenditure. 

We have noted the unrest and the questioning among 
Oriental women, but such discontent with the old may 
prove evil unless it is directed aright. We have rejoiced 
that new hopes have been born through education, social 
organization, and medical work, but we must make sure 
that the women of the East are to find their spiritual 
redemption — which will not come through education or 
social effort alone. A welfare worker was heard to say 
last winter that compulsory sanitation and compulsory 
education are the two things necessary for the reconstruc- 



INFLUENCES ON ORIENTAL WOMEN 75 

tion of the world. She had overlooked the fact that of 
these things the Germans were masters and that in those 
hands they had wrought for the destruction of the world. 
Something more is surely needed. While these blessed 
concomitants of religion are increasing rapidly, are the 
women of the East seeking the Kingdom of God and His 
righteousness? At present through an awakened inter- 
est in the Orient and a new appreciation of the wonderful 
possibilities of other races, coupled with a fear lest we 
be supercilious or patronizing, are we in danger of con- 
cluding that they do not need our Christian religion ? A 
questionnaire was recently sent men and women in India 
and China, asking if they had observed any special reli- 
gious development or awakening of spiritual conscious- 
ness during the war or since its close. Every reply re- 
ferred to the great changes that have come and are still 
coming and warned against the dangers which accompany 
new freedom. Without exception they emphasized the 
great need of more Christian schools for girls. As Pro- 
fessor Chittanbar, the Christian leader at the college at 
Lucknow, expressed it: "It is not education alone that 
will help India's women. We have seen that the ten- 
dency of government education which is non-religious 
or anti-religious is to create a religious vacuum. The 
old superstitions are going. There is only this vacuum 
unless Christianity comes in." Dr. Wu Ting Fang said 
to an American woman, "Why don't you send Western 
Christian women first to live among our women and show 
them the danger lurking in the great new freedom that is 
coming to them?" Similarly a young woman now con- 
nected with the Chinese legation in Washington has 
pointed out grave dangers in the path of her progressive 
countrywomen and emphasized their need of Christ now 
in their changing world. 

The present condition of Oriental women is caused in 
large measure by the false teaching of their religions 
regarding the position of women. Their true status will 



76 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

be fully secured not by mere changes in social customs 
and organization but by a regenerating, living faith in 
Jesus Christ. Whatever we do to assist these women 
along physical, social, educational, and industrial lines, 
we must not fail to give them a clear understanding of 
their deepest need. The outlook for them depends largely 
on our own convictions and the emphasis which we place 
on the full Gospel of Jesus Christ. Friendliness ex- 
pressed in education and social service alone will not 
suffice, for it is Christ and His Gospel that are the in- 
spiration of all that is best in the social life of the world. 
The situation is a challenge to Christian women 
throughout the world. The spiritual redemption of the 
women of the East cannot be accomplished without the 
extension of the sacrifice of Christ through His disciples. 
Women of the highest Christian experience and charac- 
ter must go and live the life of Christ with these women 
of the East and train them for the highest service. How 
shall they be secured? There is one way, an old way, 
little used. We plead, we write, we advertise, we organ- 
ize, we campaign. But the key to the treasure house of 
Christian life comes from our Master who says to us, as 
He said to His helpless disciples long ago, "Pray ye there- 
fore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth laborers 
into his harvest." 



CHAPTER VII 

THE WAR AND THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 
IN INDIA 

The Great War has been one of the most stupendous 
events in modern times. How has it affected the mis- 
sionary outlook in India? It has, in most cases, doubt- 
less only accelerated processes which in the long run 
would probably, even without the war, have led to the 
same results. 

I. The Effect of the War on India as a Whot^e 

Among the more general results of the war affecting 
India as a whole may be mentioned the following, each 
of which is big with meaning for the missionary enter- 
prise : 

1. The Breaking Down of India's Isolation. 

Indian students have read in foreign universities, In- 
dian merchants and business men have fared forth in 
the interests of trade, Indian Swamis have preached 
Vedantism in Europe and America; but probably the 
greatest influence from the side of India in breaking 
down her isolation and giving her a larger outlook on life 
has been the fact that about 1,000,000 Indians have gone 
abroad in connection with the war. These represent the 
rank and file of the people, coming as they do from the 
villages of every part of India. With the close of the 
war, what impressions are they carrying back with them ? 
They have observed the free, self-reliant, helpful share 
taken in war activities by the literate women of France, 
Britain, and America ; and doubtless new ideas of woman 



78 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

as partner and fellow-worker in the world's work have 
been engendered. Such impressions are bound to work 
toward a better status for women in India. They have 
been the recipients of the splendid ministry of the Army 
Young Men's Christian Association and have gotten a 
new conception of religion as consisting primarily in lov- 
ing service, and capable of manifestation even when lips 
are closed to direct testimony. They have mingled freely 
with all sorts of people and many of their ordinary caste 
restrictions have been disregarded. Such experiences lie 
in the direction of the further modification of the rules 
of caste. They have seen how men of lowly origin also 
were brothers in the great struggle and were honored 
when they proved themselves heroes, and such experi- 
ences look toward a new and better attitude toward the 
depressed classes. In a word, 1,000,000 out of India's 
315,000,000 have through their self-dedication to the 
cause of the Allies entered into a new and larger life. 
Observation of other lands and peoples has made com- 
parisons possible and awakened the faculty of self-criti- 
cism. Kipling's "Eyes of Asia" is a splendid statement 
of this. On the part of the West the factors for breaking 
down the age-long isolation of India and preparing for 
a new internationalism are the British Government and 
Christian missions. Among the achievements and serv- 
ices of the British Grovernment may be mentioned order, 
security, able administration, official honesty, education, 
railways, and canals. So far as the British Government 
in India has been penetrated by Christian ideals, it has 
been itself a preacher of righteousness and a witness to 
the truth. One need but recall the names of Sir Henry 
Lawrence, Sir Donald McLeod, Sir Robert Montgomery, 
and many another earnest Christian official, whose life 
and influence have been of the greatest missionary value. 
Nevertheless, the close connection which exists in the 
thought of the people of India between the British Gov- 
ernment and Christian missions has been to some extent 



THE WAR AND INDIA 79 

a cause of embarrassment. Indian nationalism has so 
identified the two as to oppose Christian missions because 
opposing British rule. Notwithstanding the recent lamen- 
table riots in Delhi, Amritsar, and Lahore, the future un- 
doubtedly belongs to responsible self-government. In- 
creasingly, then, the great mediating force between India 
and the West will be the Christian Church in India and 
Christian missions. Hitherto through its influence and 
legislation the British Government has helped to remove 
or modify some of the worst customs of India, such as 
sati, infanticide, premature cohabitation, the disability 
of the depressed classes, etc. But with the coming of 
home rule. Christian missions cooperating with the Chris- 
tian Church in India must carry increased responsibility. 
In many ways and by many means, then, the isolation 
of India is being broken down. What is the significance 
of this fact? For one thing, it means that, for good or 
for evil, India will be more and more closely bound up 
with the other nations of the world. Mutual influence 
will be exerted, as never before. What is to be the influ- 
ence of India upon the West, what that of the West 
upon India? Indians who have visited Europe and 
America, including the soldiers who have taken part in 
the Great War, have seen the worst side as well as the 
best side of the life of the West. How thankful we 
ought to be that in trench and camp such undenomina- 
tional and international organizations as the Y. M. C. A., 
the Y. W. C. A., the Salvation Army, and the Red Cross 
have interpreted to the Indian soldier in terms that he 
could understand the very spirit of the religion of Christ ; 
and that through hospital and dispensary, school and 
college, workshop and farm, the same thing has been 
done for India by the missions working in that land. 
India has become sensitive and plastic as never before. 
It is highly probable that with the close of the war there 
will be a new and larger preparedness to consider all 
sorts of messages, as well as the gospel message. The 



80 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

rapid breaking down of the isolation of India has laid 
her open to all the currents of the world's thought, whole- 
some and unwholesome, good and evil alike. Multitudes 
of India's educated men, while nominally maintaining 
allegiance to their old faiths, are practically secularists. 
In order to meet the new and challenging situation in 
India, adequate reenforcements and adequate equipment 
are needed. 

2. The Promise of Home Rule. 

The pronouncement of August 20, 1917, defining the 
policy of the British Parliament as "the progressive reali- 
zation of responsible government in India as an integral 
part of the British Empire," is correctly described as a 
"most momentous utterance."^ It undoubtedly would 
have come in time, but the war has accelerated it. India's 
partnership with Britain in bearing the burdens of the 
war through the offering of a million men and a war 
loan of upwards of $500,000,000 undoubtedly had its 
effect in calling forth the pronouncement. The goal of 
responsible government has been defined, and so is in 
sight. It is to come gradually by successive stages, and 
"the British Government and the Government of India 
must be the judges of the time and measure of each ad- 
vance." Such is the program of constitutional reform. 
The publication of the Montagu-Chelmsford scheme has 
quickened Indian political thought and provoked through- 
out the country very keen debate. The recent lamentable 
occurrences connected with the "passive resistance" 
against the Rowlatt legislation may possibly postpone the 
day of home rule, but will scarcely abolish the hope of it. 
In these critical and delicate times the wise missionary 
has an extraordinary opportunity. He can declare him- 
self unreservedly on the side of the parliamentary pro- 
nouncement of August 20, 1917, and from this vantage 



1 "Report on Indian Constitutional Reforms," p. 5, London, 
1918. 



THE WAR AND INDIA 81 

ground of hopefulness and of sympathy with the legiti- 
mate aspirations of the Indian people he may utter wise 
and sane counsels. There is no disguising the fact that 
in looking forward to "responsible self-government," 
which means a democratic form of government, India 
labors under serious disabilities. There is the heavy- 
weight of illiteracy, less than ten per cent of the whole 
population being able to read. There is the lack of unity, 
due to diversity of religion, race, language, and custom, 
but most of all to caste. There is the attitude toward the 
"untouchables," by which 50,000,000 of India's people 
are denied the elementary rights of human beings. It is 
a hopeful sign, however, that the best people of India 
are becoming more and more conscious of these disabili- 
ties, and more and more determined to remove them. 
The promise and hope of home rule have already made 
the wheels of reform to move more rapidly. As India 
gradually assumes the burdens and responsibilities of 
self-government, there will be a new point of contact for 
the preaching of the Gospel. Character will be seen to 
be the great need. How to produce the integrity which 
is able to withstand the temptation to official corruption 
will be the great question. Here lies the opportunity of 
the Indian Christian Church. If she can show that such 
of her members as are called to positions of responsibility 
possess in general the character that lies at the founda- 
tion of honest and efficient government, then it will be 
manifest to the Indian people that to believe in Christ 
ministers to patriotism, honesty, and efficiency. In help- 
ing to remove the illiteracy of India, to lift up the de- 
pressed classes, and to create a spirit of brotherhood. 
Christian missions has done great things. These "good 
works" will be acknowledged by the Indian people in due 
time, and will stand as evidence that the religion of Jesus 
Christ ministers to the total welfare of India. 

The question may be raised as to the effect on mission- 
ary effort of a larger degree of self-government on the 



82 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

part of Indians, especially as these will be largely non- 
Christians. An Indian legal gentleman of wide obser- 
vation and good judgment has furnished Rev. W. J. 
Clark with the following reasons for declining to be dis- 
turbed by the fear of unjust treatment : 

a. "For a long time the paramount power will be 
British, which will see fair play. 

b. "A keen desire to show fitness for exercising au- 
thority will lead to the avoidance of its abuse. 

c. "The officials will be from the English-educated 
Indian class, who while nominally non-Christians, will 
be practically devoid of religious views and therefore of 
religious prejudice. 

d. "To show that the people are united in the desire 
to secure greater political responsibility, concessions are 
already being made to other communities, and not least 
to the Christian community. 

e. "Religious differences when they occur will be be- 
tween Hindus and Mohammedans, and both will probably 
seek to enlist the votes of the other communities who 
hold the balance of power. 

f . "The new spirit of patriotism desires the advance- 
ment of the people in all lines, and the leaders are suffi- 
ciently shrewd to observe the very real help given by mis- 
sions and missionaries and will seek to retain that help." 

The riots in India during March and April, 1919, in 
opposition to the Rowlatt legislation^ and their stern re- 
pression by the British Government have greatly intensi- 
fied racial bitterness. This may seriously hinder the 
work of missions in that land. Economic difficulties 
have had much to do with the unrest. Partial failure of 
the rains in 1918, added to the effect of the war in 
creating high prices, has resulted in famine conditions 
in many parts of India. Influenza alone has caused the 
death of 6,000,000. It is no wonder that under these 
circumstances India like the rest of the world has shown 
signs of "nerves." There is need of a very special degree 



2 See Report of the Rowlatt Committee, 1918. 



THE WAR AND INDIA 83 

of sympathy, patience, and hopefulness on the part of 
missionaries laboring in India. 

3. The Need of Popular Education as Equipment for 
Citizenship. 

This need stands in the closest connection with the 
"Home Rule" pronouncement of August 20, 1917. Re- 
sponsible government means democratic government, the 
rule of the people and the responsibility of officials to 
those whom they represent. But, unfortunately, over 
ninety per cent of the people of India are illiterate. Ac- 
cording to the census of 1911 only six per cent of the 
population of British India were literate, eleven per 
cent among men and one and one-tenth per cent 
among women.^ The emphasis in the past on the part of 
both the Indian Government and Christian missions has 
been too exclusively in the direction of higher education. 
The new program of "responsible government" will 
surely bring with it a new sense of the need of a larger 
diffusion of education among the masses as a preparation 
for the duties of citizenship.* The various "mass move- 
ments" have brought multitudes of illiterate people into 
the Church. They need suitable training, in order to 
make them good Christians, and so good citizens. There 
is now on the part of all the Christian forces in India a 
sense of the urgency of this need. The opportunity fur- 
nished by the mass movements is a perilous one, unless 
handled with high Christian statesmanship. It is in view 
of this situation that the British-American Commission 
to study the problem of village education in India has 
been appointed. 

4. The New Industrial Program. 

The report of the Indian Industrial Commission (1916- 
1918) is another illustration of the effect of the war. On 
page two of the introduction we read: "The views of 



3 See "Report on Indian Constitutional Reforms," 1918, p. 111. 
* See "Education and Citizenship in India," L. Alston, 1910. 



84 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

Government and of the public have been further modified 
under the stress of war necessities [italics are the 
writer's] , which have led to a still more definite adoption 
of the policy of State participation in the industrial de- 
velopment, and to the grant of State assistance to several 
industrial undertakings/' So the old policy of laissez 
faire is abandoned. It is another by-product of the war. 
This new policy on the part of Government is a summons 
to us to survey the whole situation as regards industrial 
missions and to seek to formulate a policy of mission 
industrial development in harmony with the needs of the 
Christian community and of India as a whole. In the 
early days of mission work in India when Christian con- 
verts lived largely in cities, the emphasis was upon city 
industries. With the coming of the "mass movements," 
however, industrial mission work has been broadened 
so as to include the great village industry, agriculture. In 
fact, one of the most pressing problems connected with 
the mass movement Christians is the problem of their 
industrial and economic improvement. Hence the estab- 
lishment of agricultural training schools in various places. 
The recent tendency on the part of industrial missions 
has been to provide not only simple agricultural training 
for illiterate village Christians, but also advanced indus- 
trial education for men of college grade. Hence the ad- 
vanced agricultural courses in the Allahabad School of 
Agriculture and the industrial chemistry department of 
the Forman Christian College, Lahore. One thing is 
certain, that there will be a large industrial development 
in India during the next quarter of a century. In the 
interests of self-support it is vitally necessary that the 
Christian community should take its share in such a de- 
velopment. 

The industrial awakening in India may be considered 
from a still larger point of view. It is a challenge to the 
Church of Christ to prove to a people rapidly advancing 
in modern industrial development the fundamental place 



THE WAR AND INDIA 85 

that God has and must have in such a movement. A rapid 
industrial development presupposes an equally rapid 
scientific development. The study of science, together 
with the methods of thought and action it brings with 
it, is one of the greatest forces known for destroying 
untrue beliefs. It is proving this abundantly in India. 
The educated man, particularly the scientist, is turning 
away from his religious beliefs. The natural tendency 
for a man who has had this experience is to lump all 
religious beliefs with his own, and believe them all un- 
true. This is particularly the case if he be engaged in 
building up some industry. He sees his success, and 
thinks that he has accomplished it himself, and sits back 
with smug satisfaction like the Rich Fool in Christ's 
parable. He has denied God's part in his success, and 
the result can be nothing but moral failure for himself 
and for all those with whom he is in contact, who admire 
his apparent success. The Church in India, at this for- 
mative stage in industrial development, has a tremendous 
opportunity to influence the character of the future in- 
dustrial life. 

If this industrial development can have strong Chris- 
tian leadership, it should be possible to swing the whole 
movement towards Christianity, instead of away from 
every sort of religious ideal, as has happened in Japan 
from lack of Christian leadership. 

5. A New Place for Women in the Work of India 
and of the World. 

This, too, is in part a result of the war. What the mili- 
tant suffragettes were clamoring and struggling for, 
namely, "votes for women," has come naturally through 
the very logic of events. The women of Britain and 
America have won the right of the suffrage through 
showing the bravery and doing the work of men. As 
never before in the history of the world, it is now the 
age of women. As illustrations of what women can do 



86 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

in India reference may be made to Pandita Ramabai's 
great work for widows and orphans, not to mention the 
work of multitudes of other Indian Christian wornen and 
of the great body of women sent out to India as mission- 
aries. The great mass of the women of India are under 
special disabilities owing to early marriage, widowhood, 
seclusion, and illiteracy. A brighter day is in sight. The 
recent establishment of colleges for women at Lucknow, 
Landour, Lahore, and Madras is significant. India's 
womanhood must be raised, educated, and helped to ad- 
vance, along with the womanhood of Britain and 
America. We may confidently expect a vast development 
of female education during the next twenty-five years. 

Hitherto the women of India have been the greatest 
block to progress. But now they also are caught in the 
tide of change which is sweeping over the land. Many 
are the evidences of this. In Lahore a group of well- 
educated Indian ladies has for a number of years been 
developing extensive community work, demonstrating 
questions of hygiene, sanitation, care of children, and the 
like. The same thing has been seen in other places. A 
similar spirit of helpfulness was shown during the influ- 
enza scourge. 

Is it any wonder, then, that the call for equal suflfrage 
is heard from these women who have seen and know 
and want to help ? Is it strange that at the last meeting 
of the Indian National Congress at Delhi to discuss the 
Montagu-Chelmsford reforms there were several hun- 
dred women present — some of them taking a very active 
part in the debates? Such a thing would have been im- 
possible five or six years ago — yet it is happening today. 
They are saying that they are right with the men in work- 
ing for reform and advance. This means that instead 
of being the greatest drag on progress, the women of 
India are beginning to be and soon will be a great force 
for progress. There is greater opportunity and bigger 
need for Christian work among them than ever before. 



THE WAR AND INDIA 87 

6. A New Conscience on the Subject of Strong Drink. 

This, too, has been greatly developed by the war. The 
rapid movement of the United States towards total pro- 
hibition has caught the attention of the world. The action 
of France and Russia in the early days of the war in 
prohibiting absinthe and vodka is significant. Powerful 
opponents of the traffic in strong drink have risen up in 
Britain. It is significant also that not long ago a resolu- 
tion to prohibit the traffic was actually introduced into 
the Imperial Legislative Council of India and received 
the votes of a considerable number of Indian members. 
This last year for the first time a report on temperance 
was presented by the Anglican Bishop of Madras, Con- 
vener of the National Missionary Council's Standing 
Committee on Temperance. It is safe to say that the 
days of commercialized traffic in strong drink are num- 
bered. The battle against strong drink and hurtful drugs 
will probably be fought out in India during the next 
twenty-five years, if not sooner. Much of the best senti- 
ment of India, non-Christian as well as Christian, is on 
the side of radical temperance legislation. It is for the 
foreign mission bodies to join forces with the existing 
Indian sentiment in this great crusade. 

II. The Effect of the War on the Indian Church 

The six topics dealt with up to this point indicate the 
effect of the war upon India as a whole. We may now 
inquire what has been the eflfect of the war on the Indian 
Church and on Christian missions in India. 

1. A New National Spirit in the Churches. 

This is part and parcel of the movement for home rule, 
in fact its religious counterpart. It is perfectly obvious 
that just as there is to be "the progressive realization of 
responsible government" in the State, so there must be in 



88 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

the Church. The presence of the national spirit in the 
Churches is proved by the large number of articles which 
have recently appeared on the relation between Church 
and mission, and also by local difficulties in various 
places. In this matter India is now just about where 
Japan was twenty years ago. A spirit of self-assertion 
is a phenomenon of adolescence. It is a sign of growth. 
But it calls for readjustment. Accordingly, the problem 
which confronts most or all of the foreign missions work- 
ing in India is that of making such adjustments in mis- 
sion organization as to provide for an adequate exercise 
of initiative and leadership on the part of the Indian 
Church. As a serious study of this problem, so far as it 
relates to the work of American missions in India, Dr. 
D. J. Fleming's work entitled "Devolution in Mission 
Administration" may be strongly recommended. After 
all, the Indian Church through her indigenous member- 
ship must in the nature of things be the great evangeliz- 
ing agency in India. It is significant that during the last 
four years, synchronizing with the years of the war, the 
evangelistic spirit has been markedly developed, largely 
under Indian leadership, in connection with the "Evan- 
gelistic Forward Movement." 

2. A New Readiness for Cooperation in Mission 
Work. 

This, too, is one of the signs of the times, a tendency 
which has been greatly promoted by the war. If the 
war has taught the world anything, it is the need of co- 
operation. Union is strength, as the Allies found when 
finally all their forces were organized on a cooperative 
basis under one command. In South India the Madras 
Christian College for Women with twelve cooperating 
missions, the Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Madanapalle, 
the Medical School for Women at Vellore, and the 
Kodaikanal school for missionaries' children, are splendid 



THE WAR AND INDIA 89 

instances of cooperation. As suitable fields for coopera- 
tive effort may be mentioned women's colleges, as those 
at Madras, Lahore, Lucknow and Mussoorie, technical 
schools for normal training, agriculture, theology and 
medicine, and such a needed magazine as a Christian re- 
view for the whole of India. In this connection new 
developments in higher education need to be kept in mind. 
Already the Indian Government has begun to establish 
denominational and teaching universities. The Hindu 
university at Benares is the first example. A Moham- 
medan university at Aligarh will soon follow. The ques- 
tion inevitably arises as to the desirability or otherwise 
of a Christian university for the whole of India, to form 
as it were the capstone for the structure of Christian 
education. Such an institution could be established and 
adequately supported only on a cooperative basis. A 
splendid example of cooperation, largely due to the or- 
ganizing genius of Dr. John R. ^lott, is seen in the Na- 
tional Missionary Council of India with its system of 
provincial councils. This representative body deals with 
government in all matters of common interest and through 
its standing sub-committees conducts important investiga- 
tions. The standing Committee on Christian Literature 
has recently finished its survey of Christian literature in 
India, and on the basis of this has prepared a statement 
of need and a program of work. Cooperative effort fur- 
nishes the only solution of the problem of an adequate 
Christian literature. Probably the relation between for- 
eign mission and Indian Church needs to be recognized 
as essentially a cooperative relation. Missionaries, what- 
ever their connection with the Indian Church and what- 
ever theory is held as to the relation of Church and 
mission, in reality represent a foreign Church, the Church 
which sent them out originally and supports them on the 
field. The relation between the aiding foreign Church 
and the aided Indian Church is properly that of allies in 
a great spiritual campaign. 



90 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

3. A New Consciousness of the Need of Church 

Unify. 

The war has emphasized the fact that Christianity is 
able at such a crisis to present no united front to the 
world, no united appeal. The lesson to the disjuncta 
membra of the Church is obvious. We must aim at a 
closer union of the forces of the Gospel. Whether this 
end is to be accomplished by federation or by organic 
union is as yet uncertain. If organic union is the true 
ideal, it must be brought about by the principle of com- 
prehension, each denomination making its contribution to 
the whole, while preserving many or most of its distinc- 
tive features. One thing is certain, that democracy is 
here to stay. The organization of a united Church must 
also be democratic. If bishops or superintendents are 
retained, as they probably will be, they must be made 
constitutional and elective officers. Autocratic church 
government is as much an anachronism in these days as 
autocratic secular government. The system of the Na- 
tional Council of Missions in India with the various 
provincial councils has strengthened the spirit of unity by 
promoting mutual acquaintance and appreciation. Not 
a few see the vision of a comprehensive "United Church" 
for all India. 



CHAPTER VIII 

THE WAR AND THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 
IN CHINA 

In the discussion of this subject three factors need to 
be kept clear: first, the exact changes in international 
relationships and internal conditions in China due to the 
war; secondly, the bearing of the war on tendencies in 
missions already evident at the outbreak of the war; 
thirdly, the effect of the post-bellum political changes 
upon the missionary situation. 

I. Political Changes 

China joined the Allies against Germany in the third 
year of the war. When hostilities first broke out, she 
declared her neutrality after an abortive attempt to join 
Japan in the ousting of the Germans from Tsingtao. 
In November, 1915, she seriously proposed joining the 
Allies, but this step was not at that time approved. In 
February, 1917, following the lead of America, she pro- 
tested against Germany's submarine warfare and on 
March 14th severed relations with Germany. Five months 
later, on August 14, 1917, after a violent disagreement 
between the executive and legislative branches of the 
Government, she declared war on Germany and Austria. 
Her activities were confined to the sending of labor bat- 
talions to Europe, 175,000 in number, to sending troops 
to Siberia, to the taking over of German and Austrian 
property, and in the spring of 1919 to the repatriation of 
practically all enemy aliens. By the terms of the peace 
treaty China is relieved of further payment of Boxer 



92 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

indemnities to Germany and of any treaty obligations 
with Germany and Austria. 

The war-time changes in China's relations with Japan 
were even more significant than in those with Germany. 
In the first month of the war Japan declared war on 
Germany, after sending an ultimatum demanding the 
turning over of Tsingtao to Japan, with a view to its 
eventual restoration to China. In the second month 
Japan landed troops in Shantung, who established them- 
selves at strategic points throughout the province and 
two months later, on November 7th, forced the surren- 
der of Tsingtao, the German stronghold. Two weeks 
afterward the Twenty-One Demands were formulated, 
by which she sought to take over Germany's rights in 
Shantung, to consolidate the gains made in Manchuria 
and Mongolia in the Russo-Japanese War, to secure a 
controlling share in China's iron output, to mark out a 
new sphere of interest in Fukien and invade the British 
sphere in the Yangtze Valley, and by the appointment of 
military, political, and financial advisers, and by partici- 
pation in the control of the national police and in the 
supply of munitions of war, to make China, with all its 
resources, tributary to Japan. These demands were pre- 
sented secretly in the following month, January, 19irv, 
and after four months' negotiation, an acceptance of t^7 ^ 
first four groups was forced through by an ultimatui i* 
of war, the last and most extreme group being deferre d 
for future discussion. The next year, 1916, Japan con- 
cluded a secret alHance with her one-time enemy, Russia, 
in which they mutually agreed to assist each other in 
defending their respective possessions in China against 
any action by a third power. In February and March, 
1917, secret agreements were made with England, France, 
Russia, and Italy, whereby these nations gave formal 
approval to the Japanese claim to the German holdings 
in Shantung. In the fall of 1917, the Lansing-Ishii 
agreement between Japan and America relating to Ch\na 



THE WAR AND CHINA 93 

was signed, whereby Japan's special interests in China 
were recognized and a reaffirmation was made by both 
countries of their adhesion to the open-door policy and 
the territorial integrity of China. In October, 1917, a 
civil administration instead of a military one was set up 
by the Japanese in Shantung. In September, 1918, a 
secret agreement was made by the Japanese Government 
with certain Chinese officials, whereby the latter recog- 
nized Japan's further claims to previous German railway 
rights in and near Shantung. In addition, Japanese finan- 
cial interests were vigorously pushed through loans and 
investments, the totals reaching over $300,000,000 in 
these two years. Finally at the Peace Conference, after 
a direct clash between the representatives of China and 
Japan, the Japanese claims to the German holdings in 
China based on the secret treaties and agreements already 
mentioned were conceded, China at the last moment re- 
fusing to sign the treaty containing these provisions as to 
Shantung. The net result of the war as it affected Japan 
and China was obviously a decided advance of Japanese 
interests and possessions in China. As a result of her 
strategic position and control of communications in 
Korea, Mongolia, Manchuria, and Shantung, Japan has a 
correspondingly increased measure of economic and 
political control over North China and Peking. 

China's relations with the United States during the 
war were especially close. She trusted America and fol- 
lowed her into the war largely through the influence and 
persuasion of the American minister at Peking. Presi- 
dent Wilson's speeches were translated into Chinese and 
created widespread admiration and interest. It is only 
stating facts to say that the Lansing-Ishii agreement, 
which many Chinese interpret as an American-Japanese 
alliance and a tacit consent on the part of America to 
Japan's policies in China, and more recently the approval 
by the American delegates of the Shantung settlement, 
have not been in line with the Chinese expectations or 



94 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

hopes in American friendship and much-emphasized na- 
tional ideals. 

In her relations to the Allies in general and to the 
League of Nations, China is in a difficult position. With 
the general ideals and aims of the Allies and the League, 
as expressed to them, practically all Chinese are in sym- 
pathy. Against the particular application of these prin- 
ciples to China as expressed in the secret agreements of 
1917 and in the Shantung articles, all patriotic Chinese 
vehemently protest. Their feeling is expressed in a 
statement of the students explaining the nation-wide 
movement of protest, following the announcement of the 
Shantung settlement. One paragraph of this document 
reads : 

"A Great War has been fought in Europe. On the 
fields of France and Belgium the sons of the great nations 
of the West have given their lives that democracy and 
justice might exist upon the earth. Throughout the 
world like the voice of a prophet has gone the word of 
Woodrow Wilson, strengthening the weak and giving 
courage to the struggling. And the Chinese people have 
listened and they too have heard. They have been told 
that their four-thousand-year-old doctrine that peace is 
the greatest of all aims of a nation has become the slogan 
of mankind. They have been told that in the dispensa- 
tion which is to be made after the war, unmilitaristic na- 
tions like China would have an opportunity to develop 
their culture, their industry, their civilization, unham- 
pered. They have been told that secret covenants and 
forced agreements would not be recognized. They looked 
for the dawn of this new Messiah ; but no sun rose for 
China. Even the cradle of the nation was stolen." 

Viewed from the immediate present, the resulting situ- 
ation is most confusing and unsatisfactory. On the 
other hand, from the standpoint of the future, there are 
great possibilities in the League of Nations if it will in- 
clude the Orient as well as the Occident in a program 
of impartial justice. 

In internal affairs the Chinese Republic has passed 



THE WAR AND CHINA 95 

through some significant phases during the war. Two 
attempts were made to restore the monarchy, the first 
by Yuan Shih-kai in the winter of 1915-1916, his imperial 
regime lasting eighty days; the second by Chang Hsun 
in 1917 in an attempted restoration of the Manchu boy 
prince, whose regime lasted eight days. The power of 
the military governors, who control their own soldiers, 
has become increasingly felt. In 1918 the members of 
the parliament which had been dissolved the previous 
year met at Canton, while another parliament was con- 
vened at Peking. Thus far efforts to bring the two 
governments together have failed. Hsu Shih-chang was 
elected president by the northern parliament in Septem- 
ber, 1918, but as yet his election has not been recognized 
by the south. The resulting discord and lack of unity 
have been a disappointment to all friends and well- 
wishers of China. As an American adviser has said, we 
may look upon this struggle "with a sigh, but never with 
a sneer." 

II. The Bearing of the War on Missionary Tend- 
encies 

In general it may be said that the war did not so much 
introduce new phenomena in missions as accentuate ten- 
dencies and movements already in progress. An article 
in Millard's Review of December 14, 1918, called 
"Studies in Mission Psychology," which reviewed thirty 
manuscripts submitted in a competition on the subject 
of War and Missions, said: 

"Few of the points made by the writers are new ; in- 
deed it can be said that the articles deal more with ac- 
celeration of movements in existence before the war 

began than with new ones arising out of the war 

We may confidently expect, as these writers suggest, 
closer organization of the Christian forces, a more de- 
termined desire for self-support in the churches, and 
greater prominence of Chinese Christian leadership. The 
reconstruction necessary and possible along these lines 



96 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

will result in progress in mission work not yet envisioned 
by the most radical, progressive prophet." 

The general tendencies which were present in the mis- 
sionary movement at the outbreak of the war and which 
have been given added impetus by it may be summarized 
as follows: 

1. The movement toward unity and cooperation, 
already manifested in united efforts in educational lines, 
in union committees of evangelistic work in various 
centers, and in the Continuation Committee, has been 
accentuated. The union universities especially have 
grown, Peking University being the latest to be added to 
the list. At Nanking three churches and two nationali- 
ties have joined their forces in church organization. 
Everywhere the spirit of unity seems to have been 
strengthened. 

2. The tendency towards more centralization of au- 
thority and responsibility, indicated by the organization 
of executive committees of the various missions and sta- 
tions and the managing boards of the various educational 
institutions, has been strengthened. 

3. The value of Chinese leadership, already recog- 
nized, has become axiomatic and it is taken for granted 
that no form of Christian work can succeed without it. 
The new organization of the Anglican Church is an ex- 
ample of this. 

4. There is a further advance in the sense of re- 
sponsibility of the native Church. This is strikingly il- 
lustrated in the mission undertaken by it to Yunnan, a 
project which was planned in the summer of 1918 and 
begun in the following spring for the evangelization of 
this interior province by the Chinese Church itself. 

5. The increasing cordiality toward Christians as fel- 
low-citizens and as identified with the nation's interests, 
manifest before the war, has been accentuated. In the 
wave of popular protest that swept the country in May 
and June after the Shantung decision was announced, the 



THE WAR AND CHINA 97 

students of Christian schools, by associating themselves 
with the government school students in this whole move- 
ment, won recognition for themselves as true patriots, 
a recognition which hitherto, on account of their studying 
in foreign schools, had not always been granted to them. 

6. There is an increased emphasis on the relation of 
Christianity to the needs of the nation. Christianity 
is no longer regarded as hostile to the best interests of the 
republic. On the other hand, there are many Chinese 
who despair of any means of salvation for their nation 
except that offered by Christ. Students who have been 
away from China in America have remarked upon this 
new attitude of friendliness and welcome which has ap- 
peared during their absence from their country. If the 
distinction is held clearly between the true functions and 
respective positions of patriotism and religion, with no 
confusion or compromise in this regard, this new feeling 
should be of much value to the work of missions in China. 

The acceleration in these tendencies mentioned above, 
due to the war, is evidenced in the steady growth of the 
adherents to Christianity. Although the women mission- 
aries continued to increase, in 1915 their number being 
3,235, and in 1917, 3,637, the number of men avail- 
able for missionaries in China did not show the cus- 
tomary increase during the war, the figures in 1915 
being 2,103 and in 1917, 2,263. But despite this tem- 
porary delay in reenforcements, the Christian Church 
continued to gain steadily, the baptized communicants in 
1915 being 268,650, and in 1917, 312,970, the Christian 
constituency increasing in the same period from 526,108 
to 654,658. There was a correspondingly large increase 
in the number of Chinese leaders in the work, and the 
conclusion is inevitable that despite the handicap of the 
war the growth of the Church has been steady and 
strong.^ 



1 See "Chinese Year Book for 1918," Appendix. 



98 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

On the financial side it should be noted that the great 
demand for silver during the war brought about a marked 
change in its value. In 1915 a gold dollar would bring 
$2.50 in Chinese silver. In 1919 the two were about at 
par. The effect of such a shift in values upon prospective 
building and upon current budgets is obvious. 

A special problem in the situation created by the war 
concerns the German missionaries and the stoppage of 
their work. The German missionaries in China at the 
beginning of the war numbered 141 men and 68 women, 
with a constituency of 25,144 baptized Chinese Chris- 
tians.^ Of the sincerity and true contribution to the 
Christian cause of the majority of these missionaries 
there can be no doubt. On the other hand, there was a 
movement on foot in 1913 for the use of the German 
missions and especially of their mission schools for the 
advancement of the German Weltpolitik. Thus in a 
statement called "A Memorial for the Advancement of 
German Interests in China," issued by the German Asso- 
ciation of Shanghai, a comparison was made between the 
schools of the Protestant missions of the English and 
Americans with those of Germany, and a policy was 
drawn up whereby the German schools would be in- 
creased and German influence thereby strengthened. The 
paper said : 

"Only in their outward form should these schools be 
really mission schools; in their inner organizations they 
should be something between a mission school and an- 
other kind of school These schools would have to 

stand in a special relation to the mission, as they would 
be under a special organization with a school inspector, 
and also because the religious element would be of 
secondary importance to the national. .... From a 
purely religious point of view the standpoint here put 
forward may seem somewhat questionable, but from our 
point of view it does not make so much difference. 



2 See A, J. Brown, Foreign Missions Conference, report of sub- 
committee on Missions and Government, January 15, 1918. 



THE WAR AND CHINA 99 

.... We must put forth our strength to the utmost, 
maintain a 'school and propaganda politik' on a large 
scale, and so safeguard for ourselves a part in China's 
economic development in keeping with our importance 
and the demands of our future." Signed, German Asso- 
ciation, Shanghai, April, 1913.^ 

The deportation of the Germans altered entirely the 
situation of German missions in China. Some of the 
missionaries were exempted, but the work as a whole 
has been brought to a standstill. If it is to be carried 
forward, it will have to be done by agencies of other 
lands, at least for the near future. 

III. The Probable Effect of the Present Political 
Situation 

There are three political developments due to the war 
which may all have important effects upon the missionary 
movement in China. These are related to the changes in 
China's foreign relations with Japan, America, and the 
Allies in general. 

What effect will Japan's increased power in China 
have upon missions? We can only forecast the future 
by a study of her past policy in Korea and her present 
attitude in Shantung. In April, 1915, a law against 
teaching religion in the mission schools in Korea was 
put in operation by the Japanese, the schools being 
given ten years in which to conform to this rule. Fur- 
ther, the attitude of the Government toward the Chris- 
tian Church was revealed in the Korea Conspiracy Case 
in 1912, and in the suppression of the Korean movement 
for independence that began in March, 1919. 

In Shantung one of the first steps of the Japanese 
Government has been the closing of certain mission 
schools in Tsingtao.* The Japanese Government regards 
with suspicion any movement apparently controlled and 



^ T. F. Millard, "Democracy and the Eastern Question," Ap- 
pendix E. 

* A. J. Brown, "A Tenant in Shantung," Asia, September, 1919. 



100 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

led by foreigners, whose general principles of democracy 
and individualism do not coincide with the governing 
principles of the Japanese State. 

The hope for the future seems to lie in the strengthen- 
ing of a more liberal party in Japan, until it can control 
the more conservative and less democratic forces. As a 
Japanese Christian pastor stated the situation: "The 
greatest crisis of Japan's history is impending. Milita- 
rism and imperialism have been the great hindrance to the 
propagation of the Gospel in Japan ; missionaries, pastors, 
and evangelists have been considered by many as the 
enemies of militarism and imperialism, and consequently 
of Japan. If these two 'isms' could be destroyed, the 
way to Christ could be opened for the people of Japan."^ 

The outcome of the war has not adversely affected the 
influence of individual American missionaries living in 
China, as the Chinese have felt that, although these 
Americans have carefully refrained from any unwise 
participation in Chinese politics, on the whole they are 
in sympathy with the best interests of the Chinese Repub- 
lic. When the effect of the Shantung decision upon 
China's attitude toward America as a whole is considered, 
we must be on our guard against too positive statements. 
Foreign missions is inextricably bound up with the for- 
eign relations of the nations which the missionaries repre- 
sent, and the attitude of the natives is affected by the 
attitude of these governments toward his own land. 
Hitherto America has always been regarded by the Chi- 
nese as their best and most trusted friend. Those who 
live and work in China hope that no act of foreign policy, 
present or future, will mar this traditional friendship and 
respect. 

The same may be said of China's relations to the other 
Allies, as they are represented in the League of Nations. 



5 Dr. Ebina, Conference of Federated Missions of Japan, 1918, 
quoted by J. E. Williams in Foreign Missions Conference Re- 
port, 1919. 



THE WAR AND CHINA 101 

Many of China's problems can best be solved through 
such cooperation of the nations as the League is supposed 
to represent. But as to the first definite application of 
the principles of the League to China, one of the Chinese 
delegates at Paris, a product of mission schools and of 
Christian education in America, said : "I have been much 
dazed by the inexplicable decision by the 'Big Three' over 
the Kiaochow question." This attitude may be taken as 
indicative of the present attitude of the Chinese as a 
whole toward the Allies, and this feeling will be reflected, 
in the near future at least, in their attitude toward mis- 
sionaries from the Allied nations. Furthermore, the 
whole question of economic development and reconstruc- 
tion in China, with the delicate subject of foreign finan- 
cial control during the process, is bound up in China's 
relations with Japan, America, and the Allies. China 
will be developed, but will it be in her interests, or in 
the interests of an economic imperialism of other na- 
tions? How deeply will the spirit of Christianity per- 
meate this contribution of the Occident to the Orient? 
"Will Christianity in China be able to subdue unto itself 
not only all that is alien to it in the religion and social 
life of the Chinese, but also all that is hostile to it in the 
trade and commerce of the West?"^ "No one close to 
the facts can doubt the truth of the statement that West- 
ern civilization is about to conquer the Orient. The real 
question is, not whether Western civilization can conquer 
the Orient, but whether Christianity will conquer Wes- 
tern civilization."'^ 

The outcome is yet to be seen. But no doubt as to the 
future can blind us to the clamant needs of the present, 
the needs of a people great in history, in population, in 
potential resources, groping their way unsteadily toward 



« E. M. Marrins, "The War's Effect on Missions in China," 
The Churchman, July, 1919. 

"^ John L. Childs, "Result of the War on Missionary Work in 
China," Millard's Review, December 14, 1918. 



102 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

dimly perceived ideals of democracy and liberty and the 
life of a more modern age; a people whose need today 
is for sympathetic support and aid on the part of her 
sister nations, and whose paramount need is for Christ. 
And no doubt about the outcome can alter or shake in 
any way our confidence in the One who first gave the 
command for the mission campaign throughout the world, 
who Himself is the chief cornerstone in any structure, 
individual, national, or international, that we may strive 
to build. 



CHAPTER IX 

THE WAR AND THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 
IN JAPAN 

Although Japan formally declared war against Ger- 
many on August 23, 1914, the Japanese people were slow 
to realize the fundamental issues of the war and to feel 
its impact upon their thought and life. With the entry 
of America into the war, however, it began to come 
nearer home ; but even to the end of the war Japan had 
no need to resort to rationing ; on the contrary, the coun- 
try experienced an unprecedented commercial and indus- 
trial expansion. This was a mixed blessing. The people 
missed the stern discipline of enforced thrift and heroic 
giving and the stimulus which comes from devotion to 
voluntary war relief, shoulder to shoulder with millions 
of fellow-countrymen. Except for the doubling of the 
cost of living, with the consequent hardship to wage 
earners and small salaried men in other than war indus- 
tries, the nation at large knew nothing of the hardships 
of the war. There were some generous contributions 
to war relief funds, but they were made by a small minor- 
ity, chiefly Christians and well-to-do Japanese who had 
traveled abroad, or by prominent firms and officials in 
response to appeals by foreigners. But since the armi- 
stice was signed the revolutionary significance of the war 
has been dawning upon the Japanese people, until now it 
has been forced home not only to the educated and 
traveled minority, but even to the man with the hoe. 

I. The Effect of the War on the National Life 
Speaking, then, of the war in the sense of the world- 



104 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

wide upheaval which it started and which is still in 
progress, we may say that the religious and moral situa- 
tion in Japan has been affected in the following ways : 

1. Progress in Understanding and in Applying Demo- 
cratic Ideals. 

Powerful liberalizing influences had been incessantly at 
work in Japan, even before the Great War came. In 
politics and education and social reform there had been 
an unbroken line of broad-minded, courageous prophets 
from the days of Count Itagaki and the other liberals of 
the seventies, down to the present day. The Christian 
movement within and Anglo-Saxon influence from with- 
out constantly fanned the flame of liberalism. Unfor- 
tunately, however, the powers that be discouraged the 
free discussion and propagation of democratic and liberal 
ideas. With the fall of the Terauchi cabinet in Septem- 
ber, 1918, a new era began. The cabinet's fall was due 
to many causes, but among them was popular dissatisfac- 
tion with its undemocratic, repressive rule at home and 
its sacrifice of prestige abroad by failing to fall in with 
the universal democratic movement. The manifest in- 
effectiveness of its "strong" China policy, its inability 
to curb the profiteers and keep down the cost of living, 
and also the recoil of Count Terauchi's interview with 
Mr. Gregory Mason in The Outlook, in which he seemed 
to betray a lurking sympathy with Germany — all of these 
hastened its downfall. The significant fact is that the 
cabinet was overturned by the pressure of public opinion 
and that public opinion demanded that Mr. Hara, a liberal 
and a commoner, should be called to form a new cabinet. 
For the first time Japan has a party cabinet and a com- 
moner at its head. 

The rising tide of democracy was due largely to the 
part taken by the American people in the war and to the 
speeches of President Wilson. For some years it had 
been the custom for certain sophisticated Japanese 



THE WAR AND JAPAN 105 

writers and speakers to refer scornfully to Americans as 
dollar-worshipers and hypocrites, whose selfish imperial- 
ism was thinly veiled by the sending out of missionaries 
and the bestowing of huge charitable gifts to salve their 
consciences and hide the heartlessness of their industrial 
system. On the other hand, the cult of Prussianism, 
which had been fostered by influential bureaucrats and 
professors, was deserted by many devotees in dismay 
when it was seen that Prussianism logically ended in 
tyranny and in ruin. The sudden falling off in the num- 
ber of applicants for admission to the military schools in 
1918 and 1919 shows what a blow the defeat of the 
Central Powers gave to militarism in Japan. 

The Hara cabinet at once let down some of the bars 
to free speech, and the country was flooded with the dis- 
cussion of democracy, social and political reform, and 
internationalism. The word "democracy" in its English 
form was transferred bodily into Japanese, and has been 
blazoned upon the notice boards of countless public meet- 
ings and on the title-pages of every prominent magazine. 
The circulation of the Chiio Koron, or Central Review, 
has leaped from a circulation of 11,000 to 55,000 within 
four years, because Dr. Yoshino, the Christian professor 
of politics in Tokyo Imperial University, has made it 
the chief organ of his progressive ideas. Honorable 
Y. Ozaki, ex-minister of justice, long an admirer of the 
British Constitution, last year published a bold volume 
entitled "The Voice of Japanese Democracy," in which 
he denounces the militarist clan oligarchy and advocates 
British principles of popular government. More recently 
a group of liberal publicists and writers — prominent 
among whom is Professor Fukuda, an earnest Christian 
in his college days — has formed a society which advo- 
cates universal suffrage, the overthrow of bureaucratic 
autocracy, the abolition of class distinctions, the revision 
of the revenue system, the public recognition of labor 
unions, and the reform of colonial administration. These 



106 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

men are not mere agitators itching for notoriety, but well- 
known thinkers and leaders. 

That all this ferment over democracy is not efferves- 
cent is shown by the fact that in March, 1919, the Im- 
perial Diet passed a bill which reduced the property quali- 
fication for the franchise from $5.00 to $1.50, in income 
or property tax paid, and thereby increased the number 
of voters from about 1,460,000 to 2,860,000. Although 
these new voters will come chiefly from the conservative 
country landholders, they will include also a goodly 
number of professional men hitherto debarred. Another 
advance is the appointment of a civilian to be governor- 
general of the leased territory around Port Arthur, the 
first instance of the kind with the exception of Prince 
Ito in Korea. Still another evidence of the same tend- 
ency, though possibly an unwise one, is the new provi- 
sion for the election of deans for the colleges of the 
Imperial University by their fellow-professors, and the 
proposal to have the president of the university elected 
by the faculty and alumni. In October, 1919, a former 
Japanese cabinet minister said to the writer : "Yesterday 
a friend just arrived from Tokyo told me that the prog- 
ress of democratic ideas since May, 1919, has been strik- 
ing. Wealth and titles of nobility are beginning to be 
contemptuously referred to, and public opinion and the 
demands of labor are treated by the authorities with 
amazing respect and consideration." 

It is significant that among the leading spirits in .the 
whole liberal movement are a number of Christian pro- 
fessors, publicists, and journalists. The Christian 
Church, in fact, while jealously maintaining independence 
of the Government and of all political entanglements, 
has always supplied" a disproportionate share of the 
leadership and the dynamic for liberalism and reform in 
modern Japan; and since the armistice it has uttered 
through the Federation of Churches a strong pronounce- 
ment interpreting to the nation the meaning of the war 



THE WAR AND JAPAN 107 

and pointing out the dangers of democracy when it is 
separated from Christianity. 

The battle between the forces of autocracy and democ- 
racy, between reaction and progress, has been joined. 
It will be fierce and prolonged. The issue will be deter- 
mined by the events of the next few years. It needs no 
argument to prove that the Christian movement in both 
Japan and America should strain every resource to de- 
velop the leaders who will keep the democratic movement 
in Japan from degenerating into formalism on the one 
hand, or into mob rule on the other, and will make it 
take shape in a stable structure of free institutions. The 
excesses to which so-called democracy has degenerated in 
Russia and other parts of Europe, as well as the munici- 
pal corruption and the industrial exploitation which 
thrive in democratic America, supply weapons for the 
reactionary forces who are doing their best to hinder the 
growth of genuine democracy. 

2. Increased Respect for the People of the United 
States. 

We have already referred briefly to the fluctuation of 
public opinion in Japan as regards America, but we desire 
here to emphasize the fact that the events of the war 
period have resulted in a vastly enhanced respect, tinged 
with fear, on the part of the Japanese people and Govern- 
ment for the American people and Government. This is 
the result of a combination of factors, among which are 
the revelation of America's unsuspected military power, 
the unity of the people, and their willingness to drop 
money-making and to sacrifice and fight, when once their 
deepest convictions are stirred. At the same time the 
Japanese people still have serious doubts of the genuine 
altruism of the American people. America's acts toward 
the Philippines, Mexico, and Panama, and the exclusion 
legislation touching Chinese and Japanese, furnish some 
of the grounds for their scepticism. Furthermore, they 



108 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

fear that when the restraints of war conditions have 
been removed the vast commercial interests of the United 
States will again assert themselves, and by fair means 
or foul crowd Japanese enterprise in China and other 
parts of Asia to the wall. It is not our purpose here to 
refute these suspicions. The important point is that the 
phenomenal prestige which the war has brought to 
America throughout the Far East imposes upon the 
American people a heavy responsibility to see that their 
vast power and influence are exercised in accordance with 
the lofty principles which they have professed under the 
spell of the war. Consistent unselfishness and large- 
mindedness in all our contacts with Japan and China are 
the only effective answer to the sinister suspicions which 
we resent. Had the war ended in the defeat of the Allies, 
the influence of England and America in Japan would 
have been overshadowed by less wholesome influences, 
and the growth of Christianity would have been given a 
serious setback. As it is, the door is wide open for 
Christian missions and every other good influence from 
America to bring their full force to bear. At the same 
time, it is more important than ever before that we do 
everything in our power to weaken those American polit- 
ical and economic influences playing upon the Orient 
which savor of Belial and not of God. 

3. A Growing Internationalism Paralleled by an 
Emphatic and Aroused Nationalism. 

Japan's age-long isolation and her interclan strife have 
made it difficult for her to appreciate or share the spirit 
of modern internationalism. Her national cult, Shinto, 
is incurably nationalistic, and the giving up of Shinto is 
strenuously opposed by all the conservative influences. 
Nevertheless, the current of internationalism which has 
been given so great an impetus by the war has touched 
Japan also and has stirred the imagination of many of 
her finer spirits. While the Japanese people have been 



THE WAR AND JAPAN 109 

politically exclusive, it should be remembered that in 
religion and intellectual culture they have shown a re- 
markable catholicity. It would be hard to find another 
country of equally advanced civilization which has thrown 
open its doors so widely to foreign faiths and civiliza- 
tions. 

In view of the opposition even in some circles in 
America to our new international relationships, it is not 
to be wondered at that the impulse toward international- 
ism in Japan is accompanied by an even stronger impulse 
toward nationalistic self-assertion. The recognition of 
Japan as one of the five great powers, the phenomenal 
opportunities given by the war for the expansion of her 
economic and political influence, and the lusty proclama- 
tion of a so-called Asiatic Monroe Doctrine by influential 
Japanese, have all gone to the heads of the people like 
wine. The militarist and imperialist group, which is still 
very powerful, has utilized this sentiment to hold out 
visions of territorial and commercial aggrandizement. 
The liberals in the lower house of Parliament and in 
the present cabinet, who represent the civilian group, 
are gaining the upper hand over the militarists, but it will 
take time to reverse the policy of a generation and undo 
the damage in China and Korea, This aggressive na- 
tionalism accounts for some of the anti-American agita- 
tion which has filled the Japanese press, though of course 
it has been in part an echo of attacks made upon Japan 
by American writers and politicians. 

The sensitiveness of the Japanese people to the pres- 
sure of temperate foreign criticism is a constant factor, 
helping to check excessive nationalism and to foster the 
tender plant of international sympathy and cooperation. 
It is probably true, for example, that the agitation in 
America over Korean maladministration and over Japa- 
nese aggression in Shantung has so strengthened the hands 
of the Hara cabinet, that, despite the opposition of the 
reactionaries, it has been able to inaugurate some reforms 



110 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

in Korea and to adopt a policy of friendly non-interfer- 
ence in Chinese politics. The revocation of the Shantung 
concessions awarded by the Peace Treaty would probably 
have meant the fall of the Hara cabinet and the return 
of the reactionaries to power. On the other hand, the 
ardent espousal of China's part in the Shantung contro- 
versy by American missionaries in China has seemed to 
the Japanese to be a meddling in politics, and has supplied 
a sharp weapon to the opponents of Christianity. It is 
of the utmost importance that criticism of Japan by 
American Christians should be transparently disinter- 
ested, and should be balanced and constructive. It should 
not only give publicity to abuses, but should conscien- 
tiously emphasize all the corrective and progressive influ- 
ences which are at work. Such a spirit will have loyal 
allies among the Christians and other liberals of Japan. 
That the Christian body in Japan has kept its independ- 
ence — better than the Churches in some other lands — 
is shown by the outspoken protests of Christian pastors 
and laymen against the government policy, especially in 
Korea, but also in China. In view of the stock charge 
that Christians are unpatriotic, it has required courage 
to utter such protests. 

A cardinal point in the policy of the liberal and Chris- 
tian elements in America should be to lock arms with the 
liberal and Christian elements in Japan and China. This 
does not involve meddling with their domestic affairs, 
but it does mean an alliance for international justice and 
good will which transcends all the traditional taboos of 
race and nation. 

Before leaving the subject of nationalistic sentiment, 
it is pertinent to note that Bushido, which has been the 
boast of patriotic conservatives, has fallen in public es- 
teem on account of the war. The reason is a strange one ; 
heroic contempt for death, burning patriotism, and self- 
surrender for king and country have been pronounced by 
many a Japanese school-teacher and drill-master to be the 



THE WAR AND JAPAN 111 

immemorial virtues of the Japanese above all other peo- 
ples. But the spirit and deeds of Occidental soldiers 
and civilians during the war have utterly exploded this 
myth.^ In so far as this reduces an inflated nationaHsm it 
is a gain, but in so far as it weakens the forces in Bu- 
shido making for discipline and unselfishness, it is a loss ; 
and Christianity must strive to make good the loss by in- 
fusing the iron of knightly self-control and heroic service. 

4. A Fresh Realisation of the Need of Something to 
Reenforce Morality. 

One of the strangest phenomena in modern Japan is the 
repeated swinging of the pendulum among leaders of 
thought between the extremes of approving religion and 
of scoffing at it. The more discerning among them now 
see clearly that it is absurd to try to build up the top layer 
of the moral wall by fostering ancestor worship and 
shrine worship and the Shinto state cult, while for the 
past forty years the scientific and purely materialistic 
educational system has been removing the foundation 
stones of the wall. This does not mean that they are all 
turning confidently to Christianity to fill the gap. But 
it does mean that they are ready to consider it on its 
merits. A professor in one of the conservative nobles' 
schools in Tokyo and an agent of the Imperial Depart- 
ment of Education are now in America to examine, 
among other things, the practical effects of Christianity 
on the character of the people, and the methods of diffus- 
ing religion among young people who attend secular 



1 The Hon. Y, Ozaki, late Minister of Justice, scathingly 
writes : 

'^Noblesse oblige is their [English peers and millionaires] 
motto, and they are proud to contribute a greater share of blood 
and treasure to the state than the common people. In this coun- 
try, on the contrary, peers and millionaires do not m.erely dislike 
to have their sons and brothers enlist in the military service, but 
they even endeavor to conceal their wealth and pay less than the 
rank and file of the common people I In the face of such a con- 
trast as this, can anybody have the temerity to claim loyalty and 
patriotism as monopolies of this country?" 



112 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

schools. Just here is the chief raison d'etre of Christian 
schools in Japan. If they all held today the high rank 
which the Doshisha held in 1890, then the evidence in 
favor of Christianity as a moral dynamic would be very 
impressive. But the Christian schools, partly for lack 
of adequate funds, lost their prestige in the nineties and 
with it their power to attract the best teachers and pupils. 
Now they are struggling valiantly to regain lost ground, 
but at the best it will require a decade. 

In the late eighties Christianity was on the crest of the 
wave in Japan. Scholars and laymen alike heard it 
gladly. But today, disillusioned and critical but yearning 
for deliverance, they demand convincing proof that Chris- 
tianity in Japan and in America can supply the master 
key to all their problems. 

5. Social Unrest and the Nascent Self -Consciousness 
of Labor. 

The phenomenal industrial expansion of the war period 
has accentuated social problems. The number of fac- 
tories has grown by leaps and bounds until now there are 
more than 30,000, and the number of factory laborers 
has doubled since 1914, being now over 2,000,000. Con- 
gested and unsanitary tenements and factory lodging- 
houses, a peril to the health and morals of thousands of 
country girls and boys who are drawn into the factories, 
the inhuman conditions of mine laborers, particularly the 
women, and the ignoring of the safeguards of the factory 
law under the pressure of war production — all these have 
aggravated unwholesome social conditions which were 
causing grave concern even before the war. In 1905 
Sidney Webb of London, after visiting Japan, wrote that 
factory conditions were similar to those which prevailed 
in England in 1840. Although the Imperial Factory Law 
was put into effect in September, 1916, it has so many 
exceptions and has been so loosely administered during 
the war that it has not effected fundamental reforms. 



THE WAR AND JAPAN 113 

The above troubles may be called chronic social ail- 
ments which have merely been aggravated by the war. 
Within the last two years there have been symptoms of 
more acute and virulent disease among the middle and 
lower strata of the people. The revolution in Russia 
and the fierce class struggle which followed sent a quiver 
of alarm to the hearts of Japanese publicists, but they 
could not believe that similar troubles would ever invade 
Japan. It was, therefore, with a shock that the nation 
found some of its larger cities terrorized in August, 1918, 
by the so-called rice riots. These riots were a spon- 
taneous outbreak by common laborers, and even some 
so-called outcasts, who suffered from the rapidly rising 
cost of living, which they felt was due in part to the 
callousness of the rich to the suffering of the common 
people and in part to the impotence of the Government 
and its alliance with big profiteers. Those riots might 
have been followed by others, for they found sympathy 
in the hearts of the underpaid middle-class wage earners, 
especially the clerks, school-teachers, and lower civil ser- 
vants. The danger, however, was averted by the dis- 
placement of the Terauchi cabinet with the liberal Hara 
cabinet, which appeased popular discontent. 

The Hara cabinet soon let it be known that a measure 
of free speech would be allowed and that labor unions, 
which for many years had been suppressed, would again 
be tolerated. The result has been a furore of labor agita- 
tion, accompanied by ten times as many strikes as ever 
before. Small wonder that sober men are alarmed and 
groping after some remedy for all these ills. 

II. Consequent Demands in Missionary Work 

We now turn to consider some of the practical bear- 
ings on the missionary movement and the Churches of 
the changes in Japanese thought and life noted above. 

1. More Exacting Requirements of Missionaries. 
The added consciousness of power and ability which 



114 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

the war has brought to the whole Japanese people has 
affected the standard of missionary qualifications. 

For a decade past the responsible leaders of the Japa- 
nese Churches have pleaded for more missionaries, and 
not entirely in vain. That plea is still being made. But far 
louder than the demand for added numbers is the request 
for finer quality. Not that they expect only paragons, 
but they do beg for a larger proportion of men and 
women possessing either specialized training and experi- 
ence or radiant Christian character and self-forgetful 
willingness to do hard, obscure tasks. Besides regular 
missionaries, there is need for two sorts of short-term 
workers : first, for Christian men and women of eminent 
attainments to spend from a month to a year on special 
missions, lecturing and conferring and having individual 
interviews. The visits of such men as George Trumbull 
Ladd, Charles Cuthbert Hall, Henry C. King, John R. 
Mott, Raymond Robins, Edward I. Bosworth, Robert E. 
Speer, and the late Charles R. Henderson have changed 
the life-currents of thousands of now influential Japa- 
nese. Second, for teachers of English in government 
schools, somewhat like those whom the Young Men's 
Christian Association has supplied, but men prepared 
to stay out for three or four years instead of two. The 
boards might well pay their traveling expenses. 

2. Increased Financial Resources but Continued Need 
of Money from Abroad. 

The war has enabled the Japanese Government to amass 
a gold specie reserve of $500,000,000 and to lend hun- 
dreds of millions to China and to the European Allies. 
This large increment of wealth, however, has not yet been 
widely distributed, and very few Christians have become 
rich. On the contrary, the majority of the Christians, 
like other low-salaried people, find their slowly swelling 
pay envelopes quickly shrunk again by the more than 
twofold increase in the cost of necessaries since 1914. 



THE WAR AND JAPAN 115 

The net result is only a moderate gain in the financial 
power of the Christian body. They give at least as 
generously as the Christians of America, but it is impos- 
sible for them to make the present Churches and other 
Christian institutions independent of foreign aid and at 
the same time to expand into the vast and practically 
untouched industrial suburbs and the rural communities. 
The agencies of demoralization are aggressive. The influ- 
ence of Japan for good or ill on the rest of Asia is greater 
than ever before. If we expect the Christian forces of 
Japan to overcome the heavy odds against them and Chris- 
tianize the whole nation, it is only elementary common 
sense for the Christians of America to give all the money 
and missionaries that can be wisely utilized. Much of the 
money from abroad ought to be applied to the training 
of able Japanese leaders, of whom there is a marked 
shortage. But the use of gifts and the holding of prop- 
erty should be entrusted more than heretofore to the 
Japanese. The leading Christian men are able, careful 
administrators with a high sense of honor. 

3. Rising Educational Standards Demand Better 
Christian Educational Institutions. 

The last Diet voted $22,000,000 for new colleges and 
professional schools during the coming decade. To this 
the Emperor added $5,000,000 and the localities affected 
are expected to contribute $10,000,000 more. Compared 
with this great sum and the large annual government ap- 
propriations for higher education, the total amount ap- 
propriated for all the Christian schools is paltry indeed. 
At length in 1918 a few mission boards proposed to 
pledge $70,000 a year for five years to start the urgently 
needed Christian University in Tokyo, on condition that 
an equal amount be raised by the promoters in Japan. 
This is good, but still better would it be to reduce at the 
start the amount required from Japan and increase the 
amount to be supplied by the boards. The whole enter- 



116 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

prise ought to be projected on a generous scale and begun 
without delay. ^ 

It should be noted that the $37,000,000 above men- 
tioned is exclusively for men's colleges. This leaves 
an extraordinarily wide door of opportunity before the 
Christian movement to expand its schools and colleges 
for girls. The steady emergence of Japanese women into 
public positions of influence adds urgency to such an ex- 
pansion. It is to be hoped that the Tokyo Woman's 
Christian University, so auspiciously started last year, 
will prove to be but the first step in the comprehensive 
advance of women's education by the united effort of all 
the boards and Churches. 

4. Increased Attention to Social Service. 

The social unrest and the nascent self -consciousness of 
labor described above present a great challenge to the 
missionary movement. Two points in particular should 
be noted. 

First, from early years the movement for bettering the 
conditions for labor in Japan has in many cases been led 
by Christian men. It is of the utmost importance that 
this should be true in even larger measure, so that the 
labor movement in Japan will not degenerate into a ma- 
terialistic and atheistic propaganda, like that which has 
accompanied the labor movement in some parts of 
Europe. 

Secondly, the missionary movement should gladly ap- 
propriate money and assign a few workers in order to 
strengthen existing Christian social agencies and to found 
new agencies. It should not be thought that the Christian 
body in Japan is alone in attempting to solve these social 
problems. Men of the highest character and ability, like 
Baron Shibusawa, are seriously laboring to bring about 



2 After the above sentences were in proof, the Interchurch 
World Movement approved the asking of $1,700,000 for the Uni- 
versity from the mission boards interested. 



THE WAR AND JAPAN 117 

reforms in working and living conditions, and they have 
large sums of money at their disposal. The Govern- 
ment likewise has in its Social Work Bureau a number 
of men abreast of the latest ideas in social welfare, among 
whom are several Christians. But while we should look 
with sympathy and approval on all such efforts, we know 
that any permanent and radical solution must be based 
upon Christian principles. The operation of social insti- 
tutions must be given warmth and sympathy by the touch 
of Christian brotherliness. It is, therefore, no time for 
half-hearted measures. A training school for Christian 
social workers, neighborhood houses, working people's 
clubs, and medical and legal clinics should be established. 
The Japanese public is in a mood to be peculiarly im- 
pressed by the social application of Christianity. Twenty- 
five years ago apologetics was in demand, but today men 
want evidence rather than argument. 

5. Christian Literature More Needed than Before 
the War. 

Democracy in all its aspects will doubtless continue 
to be discussed confidently by popular writers, but they 
will in many cases be blind leaders of the blind, because 
they do not understand and sympathize with the Chris- 
tian ideals which underlie any democracy worthy of the 
name. It remains for Christians to fill the gap. Only 
Christian Japanese waiters, thoroughly at home with 
both Oriental and Occidental thought, can write in that 
fashion. Fortunately there is an increasing number of 
such men and women, and their pens and their counsel 
ought to be far more liberally drawn upon than at present 
by literature agencies. The educated people, with the 
possible exception of students, are more accessible to the 
written than to the spoken message of Christianity. This 
is true even of those who live near churches in the cities. 
It is still more true of the literate country people who 
often live far from the churches and who have more time 



118 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

to think than city folk. A new and inviting field for 
properly adapted literature is to be found among the 
awakening laboring people, whose minds are bewildered 
by novel notions about labor unions, individual liberty, 
and high wages. Women, too, are feeling the stir of 
new ideas and are groping about for larger freedom. 

All these diverse groups need literature which presents 
the old basic truths of the Kingdom in phrases that grip 
the attention of men today and make clear their applica- 
tion to the problems of the hour. 

Our survey of the moral and religious outlook in Japan 
has revealed a scene of blended light and shadow. The 
forces of reaction and demoralization are aggressive, but 
the forces of liberalism and construction are making 
steady gains. The people are marvelously open-minded, 
the Government is hospitable to liberal influences, the 
Christian body is alive and vigorous, thoughtful men are 
recognizing the inadequacy of old remedies and are look- 
ing expectantly toward Jesus Christ. It is a situation 
that should challenge the Christians of America to make 
unprecedented efforts for the Christianization of the 
Japanese people. 



CHAPTER X 

THE WAR AND THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 
IN KOREA 

Among all the mission fields of the Church there is none 
that today presents so confused a situation as Korea. 
The increased emphasis everywhere on democracy, free- 
dom, and self-determination and the almost universal 
unrest after the war are finding a maximum expression 
in what was not long ago the quiet, hermit nation of the 
world. 

I. The Political Situation 

Thirty years ago the missionary found Korea a little 
nation quite by herself, differing from China on the one 
hand and from Japan on the other. She had drunk 
deeply of Confucian waters and was conservative to a 
degree. Still in the old teachings of the East she had 
imbibed much that prepared her for the oncoming of 
the missionary. God was ruler over all ; His voice 
sounded forth from the sacred books calHng men to lis- 
ten : "Honor thy parents" ; "Cease to do ill, learn to do 
well." The customs and habits, the joys and sorrows 
of the men and women of the Bible were found to be one 
with those of her ancient people. Scarcely yet have they 
learned to know Dante, Shakespeare, Napoleon, while 
Peter, James, and John have walked with them arm in 
arm for a quarter of a century. It was indeed a famous 
victory, this invasion of the Bible. The people of Korea 
who go to church suggest but a small fraction of those 
who have read and pondered over its sacred pages. 

But thirty long years have passed and much water has 



120 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

run under Korea's stone bridges. Instead of the back- 
ward look toward the ancients, her men now look for- 
ward. Old ideas are gone and with them the spirits and 
dreamlands of antiquity. Unfortunately, however, the 
full fruitage of the awakening is delayed by the political 
and social situation. From 669 A. D. till August, 1910, 
twelve hundred and forty-one years, Korea was an undi- 
vided kingdom. Only twice in all that time did her 
dynasty change, once in 918, and again in 1392, and never 
did she have any internal wars so great as those of the 
Roses of England. Scholars and writers lived and flour- 
ished, an army of them, when our fathers had only 
Chaucer. In 1600 an assembly of as brilliant literati as 
the world has ever seen gathered in Seoul, unconscious 
that on the other side of this little planet Shakespeare 
was writing "Hamlet.** The Japanese have a deep respect 
for the literature of this little kingdom and eagerly possess 
themselves of the works of Korean scholars. This great- 
ness in letters was paralleled by a wonderful skill in 
porcelain and paper making, in printing, in brass and iron 
work. The Koreans gave evidence of being a highly 
gifted people, untouched by the outer world. The suze- 
rainty of China was only a sort of gentlemen's agreement 
between the Imperial and Royal Houses. The Chinese 
never thought of interfering with Korea's internal affairs 
for all these fourteen hundred years. 

In 1910 Korea was lost, not by conquest, but by the 
traitorous action of half a dozen officials who handed 
over the country to Japan. These men were given liberal 
pensions and enjoy the spoils today, while the awakened 
people behold their land in bondage. Still we must speak 
a word in behalf of Japan. While balance of power ruled 
the world and Korea was free to coquet with Russia, the 
Tokyo Government found in a free yet unstable Korea 
a constant menace to its safety. This was the reason for 
the prompt and absolute annexation. It was really caused 
by misgovernment on the part of Korea herself, by her 



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misguided king and corrupt officials ; yet her situation is 
none the less bitter on that account. 

Korea and Japan find it impossible to live as one peo- 
ple, so different are they. Notice a few of their differ- 
ences. The Japanese are worshipers of the Emperor and 
count his existence semi-divine. The Koreans laugh at 
the idea. To them the only ruler who could ever claim 
divine right of kingship was the defunct Emperor of 
China. The Koreans, even the lowest classes, are all 
more or less gentlemen imbued with the great truths 
of Confucianism, while the lower-class Japanese are as 
primitive as the naked South Sea Islanders. The Korean 
guards his person and his womenfolk from the public 
eye with the most rigid exactitude. The Japanese lack 
of sensitiveness to personal exposure is to the Korean 
the limit of indecency. The Korean is a man of the pen, 
while the Japanese is a warrior. Military officials in 
Korea have always been rated second-class, while Japan 
admires beyond measure the clicking spurs and heels of a 
Hohenzollern. The Japanese is a man who loves infinite 
detail, while the Korean loathes it. Rules and regulations 
that require you to prepare in triplicate details that run 
into rates of half a farthing are as natural to the Japanese 
as the goose-step is to the German. Such exactness is an 
abomination to Korea and when its system is put upon 
her by force it becomes a strait- jacket impossible to 
endure. 

Japan is clean and neat in many ways in which Korea 
is disorderly ; she is also hard-working, while the Korean 
is a gentleman of leisure. The Japanese is effusive in 
manner and makes much of ceremony, while the Korean, 
wholly undemonstrative, misunderstands this and counts 
it insincerity. The place of the prostitute in Japan is 
shocking to Korea. When a candidate for Parliament 
can issue a manifesto as proof of his worth and fitness 
for office, stating that he is backed up by the lawyers 
of the town, by the rice merchants, and by the heads of 



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the prostitutes' guilds, without giving any offense or call- 
ing forth any remarks, we can judge of the peculiar view 
Japan has as to the "strange woman.'* Korea's view 
of her is just what ours is or should be. 

It will be seen from these illustrations how difficult 
it is for Korea and Japan to walk together. Korea is 
China at heart and while Japan got her civilization from 
China, too, she has been touched but superficially and is 
still a people from the islands of the sea. 

It is perfectly true that Japan has contributed good 
roads, hygienic benefits, and orderliness; has made, in 
many cases, the desert to blossom as the rose. Yet she 
has not begun to win the Korean. Perhaps she never 
can. It begins to look as though she had an Ireland of 
nearly 20,000,000 people on her hands — and no Ulster. 
Today Japan sits upon the safety valve, while the boilers 
beneath are cracking under the expansive pressure. 

II. The Effect on Missionary Opportunity 

Under such conditions imagine missionary work ! We 
may sympathize with the Japanese in his fear of Chris- 
tianity. Christianity's propaganda brings the foreigner 
into intimate relation with the Korean, with his life, his 
inner heart, his soul. The missionary is there to comfort, 
to guide, to help onward and upward. The intimacy thus 
established is offensive to the Japanese bureaucrat, who 
rules by the sword, who wants the Korean to be a loyal 
subject of the Mikado but cannot win him over. Chris- 
tianity is a link between the Korean and the foreigner 
such as the Japanese of this type can never hope to forge. 
The upper officials and Japanese of the better sort accept 
the situation and are willing in a kindly spirit to make 
the best of it, hoping that the missionary will aid them 
in establishing Korean loyalty. The lower officials and 
the military clique regard Christianity as a nuisance which 
must be opposed and suppressed. The average Japanese 
newspaper takes a similar view. 



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The agitation of a year ago was caused by the weari- 
ness and exasperation felt by the Korean at all things 
Japanese, particularly under the stimulus of the emphasis 
on democracy and self-determination created by the war. 
In the forefront of the agitation were many Christians. 
The result was that ere March passed nearly all the lead- 
ers of the Church were locked up. Immediately the 
prison walls began to echo with singing and the cell be- 
came a house of prayer. Judging from results one might 
say that the prison outside the west gate of Seoul was 
the greatest revival center in the country, a true theolog- 
ical hall in fact. Many who entered in darkness came out 
believers in Christ. This tendency only confirmed the 
belief of the Japanese that Christianity was persistently 
on the side of the offending Korean. Concluding that 
persuasion had been of no avail and that all public bene- 
fits had been fruitless, they turned to force as a deterrent 
and used it in every way. Such tactics only hardened 
the Korean in his determination. 

One important result of the agitation in which Chris- 
tianity is indirectly involved has been a sweeping change 
of government in Korea, involving much substitution of 
civil for military authority. It is doubtful, however, 
whether this will bring much respite. The Koreans will 
probably become a sullen, dogged nation biding their 
time. Women as well as men are agitating, noble lords 
as well as simple folk. The women who thirty years ago 
were prisoners in their houses, unseen, unless of the very 
lowest class, are now openly sharing with husband and 
son the fortunes of the day. Women form the larger 
proportion of those in the church congregations and 
remain our hope for the future. Today many are in 
prison and have been subjected to unspeakable insult at 
the hands of police and gendarmes. Their courage has 
been a wonder. Those who face the fury of Japanese 
punishment are heroes, be they Christian or otherwise. 

This agitation seems likely to continue. The very 



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efforts of the Japanese to instil loyalty to Japan into the 
mind of the Korean student is only firing his soul with 
a greater love for his own type of life. 

Under such circumstances Christianity's opportunity 
may be expressed as follows : 

1. The thought of independence occupies the Korean's 
entire mental horizon. Under such conditions it is very 
difficult to drive home Christian truth. The missionaries 
have seen years when political ferment crowded the 
churches, but with very scant spiritual results. The 
Korean is a man of one idea. If it be a large one, it 
fully occupies his mind to the exclusion of ail else. On 
the other hand, there is the consciousness that God lives, 
that He is on the side of right, and that if His people 
do their part fairly and honestly He will swing the for- 
tunes of the day in their favor. Being without arms and 
habitually opposed to violence, it is natural for them to 
appeal in prayer to God. From this angle we may hope 
for a response on the part of many to the missionary 
message. 

2. The present generation of Koreans, however, are 
no longer influenced by the old Confucian tenets that 
prompted their search for Christian truth. Schools, 
newspapers, and modern books all incline them toward 
materialism. They are out on an uncharted sea, where 
the peering eye and the questioning soul supplant the old- 
fashioned simple faith of a generation ago. They are 
therefore less responsive to the work of the missionary. 

3. The Government, however kind and fair it may be, 
— ^and the high officials have always been most kind and 
courteous — can never view with favor the present Chris- 
tian propaganda. While they will not forbid it, they can 
so easily throw out hints and suggestions of advantage, 
safety, security, and prosperity outside the Christian 
sphere that many will yield. In fact, during recent years 
there has been a marked falling off of attendance at 
church on this account. A very wise Korean made the 



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remark that his people moved along the lines of least 
resistance. This is in a large measure true and we can 
see how a little police pressure can have much to do with 
the size of the congregation today. 

4. The Korean estimate of the foreigner has changed. 
In old days we were sages in possession of the Book. 
Today we are but ordinary Westerners, survivors of the 
Great War. The real rule of the Church has passed from 
our hands and more and more we recede into the place 
of quiet counselors. This is really good for the mission- 
ary, as it makes his inner worth his only asset. 

5. The world has swung on into a new center where, 
in the thought of many Koreans, Christianity as well as 
civilization in general is out of date. "Cease to do what 
the fathers did and strike out into something new. We 
new ones are the people. Let all old-fogy notions go to 
the winds ; eat, drink, and be merry." There is much of 
this madness in the air of East Asia today. "Who would 
think of sitting down and droning over a worn-out hymn 
in church ? Away with it !" Like the miasma of the 
"flu" this spirit more or less encircles the whole earth, 
including Korea. 

From this brief discussion it will be clear that mission- 
aries in Korea have a great task before them, the out- 
look being something like what it was in days of trench, 
warfare. A united ejffort, however, with denominational 
differences eliminated and denominational unity in- 
creased, will with the blessing of God win through and 
continue the work of grace so richly manifested in past 
years. May God guide them so that the days of faith 
and hope and love may not be lost to poor Korea. 



CHAPTER XI 

THE WAR AND THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 
IN AFRICA 

Africa has had a much larger place in relation to the 
war than is generally realized. In the first place, poHtical 
relations between the European nations in Africa must be 
reckoned amongst the important causes leading up to the 
war. After the entrance of Germany among coloniz- 
ing powers, by her first acquisition of territory in South- 
west Africa in 1885, it became increasingly apparent that 
German ambitions for an African empire would run 
counter to the established interests of England and 
France. While those two nations attempted to make 
room for her, on the whole with good grace and reason- 
ably cordial welcome, Germany's plans for the acquisition 
of vast tropical resources, in order to make possible the 
realization of her dreams of power in Europe, included 
the purpose of stripping from England her choicest terri- 
tory and taking possession of Belgian Congo and of a 
substantial portion of French territory. While these 
colossal plans did not come to light till Germany felt her- 
self strong enough to proclaim her purpose, there was a 
tension in the air frequently observed by impartial travel- 
ers which pointed to conflict at no distant date. It was 
the threat of German truculence that led France and 
Great Britain to settle their conflict of interests by the 
Entente Cordiale in 1904, which was "made in Africa" 
in the sense that it grew out of the adjustments of the 
Morocco affair. Africa has been as much of a powder 
magazine as the Balkans. 



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I. Africa's Part in the War 

When the war began, some of its earHest, some of its 
most extended, and some of its bitterest campaigns were 
fought in Africa. Germany had counted heavily on the 
aUenation of the Mohammedan populations in North Af- 
rica from the Allied cause and on the rebellion of the 
Dutch in South Africa against British rule, in both of 
which hopes she was disappointed, and cordial coopera- 
tion for the most part in both those great sections helped 
to save the civilization of the world. The participation 
of the black Africans themselves in the war on the Allied 
side is no insignificant matter. France is said to have 
drawn half a million native troops from her African pos- 
sessions, with many thousands more of laborers. British 
native troops from both West and East Africa partici- 
pated in the German East African campaign. The Bel- 
gian army which took Tabora in German East Africa 
was composed almost entirely of natives under white 
officers. Portuguese native troops took part in the same 
campaign. One hundred and sixty-seven thousand native 
transport carriers were used by the British in that cam- 
paign, besides stretcher corps, drivers, etc. From South 
Africa 93,000 natives went forth to the various campaigns 
and 20,000 of that number went to France as a native 
labor contingent. No complete record of native participa- 
tion nor of their sufferings and the disturbance of their 
lives can be given here. It may be computed from these 
known facts that the numbers of natives actually engaged 
in military service will run to more than a million. The 
great bulk of the German army also which for three 
years resisted the conquest of German East Africa was 
composed of native troops. 

An enormous amount of suffering was involved. Three 
immense sections of country, aggregating territory five 
times the area of the whole German Empire in Europe, 
have been battle grounds for longer or shorter periods. 
Even where native tribes were not combatants on one 



128 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

side or the other their villages were wiped out, their 
crops confiscated or destroyed, and they were interned in 
refugee camps by one combatant army or the other. 
Famine conditions ensued even after actual fighting was 
over, owing to the necessity of recovering from the wil- 
derness the cultivated lands which it so quickly swallows 
up. About thirty per cent of the population of the 
Batanga district of the Kamerun was wiped out. Casual- 
ties amongst natives as a result of the war will probably 
run into the hundreds of thousands. Besides the disturb- 
ances in actual war areas, rebellions were stirred up by 
arbitrary methods of recruiting, as in Portuguese East 
Africa, or advantage was taken of the existence of an 
unusual military force to complete the subjugation of a 
half -subdued tribe, as in the case of the Vakuanyama in 
Portuguese West Africa. 

II. Social and Religious Effects 

Everywhere the economic effects of the war have been 
sharply felt. In the war areas trade practically disap- 
peared. Advanced natives went back to the use of bark 
cloth and other primitive customs and all sorts of expe- 
dients were resorted to by missionaries to supply the place 
of imported articles unobtainable. In South Africa the 
tremendous increase in the cost of living has made native 
wages inadequate to their growing needs. This, added 
to the increasing scarcity of land and the consequent 
drift to the labor centers, has made a fertile field for the 
labor agitator, a newcomer amongst the natives. Agents 
of the I. W. W. have organized the Industrial Workers 
of Africa on the Rand. Native strikes have occurred 
during the war. Industrial unrest has been in marked 
contrast to the natives' political loyalty. In the most 
primitive parts of the continent the hard economic condi- 
tions have created a feeling of dependence and have made 
the people more accessible to missionary effort. In the 



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more settled areas these conditions have resulted in feel- 
ings of bitterness toward the white man unfavorable to 
the missionary message. There has been a resurgence of 
the Ethiopian movements toward ecclesiastical independ- 
ence, though these have not reached serious proportions. 

The Literary Digest recently had a cartoon in which 
the black man was pictured as Rodin's Thinker. In- 
tended to illustrate the mental attitude of the American 
Negro, the cartoon well represents the new mental condi- 
tion produced by the war even in Africa. Several corre- 
spondents record their observations of the marked effect 
on natives of having taken part in a white man's war, 
not only killing other Africans in defense of a govern- 
ment in which they have no voice, but even shooting down 
white men. They have had the experience of being 
needed by the white man in a crisis and being called upon 
to volunteer for the service. The thousands who have 
been overseas have had their mental horizon immensely 
broadened and have come in contact with Europeans 
whose attitude toward them was one of gratitude and 
neighborliness. 

The African is more or less consciously taking stock 
of his position. In areas like South Africa he is begin- 
ning to feel his need of political power. His demands 
are becoming articulate and a strong racial consciousness 
is developing. He is more or less preoccupied with politi- 
cal matters and is not perhaps as susceptible as hereto- 
fore to the ordinary appeal of the Gospel. It must find 
forms of approach and appeal suitable to his new condi- 
tion. Spiritually, the confusion caused by his rapidly 
changing social life has been intensified by the war. The 
old standards and sanctions of animism have proved 
unequal to the strain of the rapidly developing individual- 
ism. The new standards of Christianity have been sub- 
jected to a sudden strain. The native mind is in a state 
of confusion which renders it susceptible to both good 
and evil influences. 



130 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

III. Political Effects 

The native population is not sufficiently developed to get 
advantage from the doctrine of self-determination even 
to the extent of determining what European nation shall 
have the mandate over them, although Mr. Lloyd George 
on several occasions expressed his intention of securing 
for them that right. There is little for them to lose in 
being handed over from one overlordship to another, 
for they possessed only the most elementary political priv- 
ileges under any of the European governments. Such 
political advantage as they may derive from the war must 
be in the direction of better government and the securing 
of larger rights as the result of the awakening of an 
international conscience. 

There can be little doubt that the African will benefit 
by passing from the control of Germany to that of Great 
Britain, and probably also to that of France. In the 
period of adjustment following upon the change from 
German to French control in the Kamerun such advan- 
tage is not immediately apparent. French control, partly 
owing to anxiety to abandon German severity and partly 
owing to the lack of competent officials during the stress 
of the war, has been somewhat lax, and certain unruly 
elements amongst the natives have been out of hand, so 
that the French have felt themselves in danger of losing 
the respect of the mass of the natives. Moreover, the 
French are probably by habit less sympathetic toward 
missionary effort than the Germans, but it is at least 
certain that from the standpoint of native interests the 
restoration of the colonies to Germany was unthinkable. 
Without going into details of German administration it is 
obvious that her policy of building up a great military 
system for the purpose of establishing an African empire, 
and her plantation system for exploiting the country's 
resources, offered little future for the natives except that 
of serfs, and 13,000,000 people will breathe easier for her 
absence from Africa. 



THE WAR AND AFRICA 131 

But it is to the influence of the mandatory system on 
the government of all the European territories in Africa 
that we must look for improvement in the natives' politi- 
cal position. The great difficulty with the government 
of Africa has been the assumption of the right by Euro- 
pean nations to partition African peoples amongst them- 
selves and govern them in water-tight compartments, 
subject to no restraint by the conscience of the rest of the 
world except when maladministration became so atro- 
cious as to awaken a tardy protest, as in the Congo atroc- 
ities. On the old imperialistic system the native popula- 
tions have been regarded sometimes as a burden which 
the white man had to assume in order to get the land, 
sometimes as an asset to be turned to his own profit, but 
seldom as a responsibility with the aim of developing a 
native civilization, not solely for the white man's benefit, 
but because it was fundamentally right and an obligation. 
The conscience of the Christian world ought by the man- 
datory system to become the supreme court of African 
administration. 

Conditions differ so much in different parts of Africa's 
vast area that no one system of government can be laid 
down for all parts. In some parts of Central Africa the 
natives are in such primitive and isolated conditions that 
there had been a year of war before any of them knew 
there was a war. On the other hand thousands of South 
African natives have been recruited by voluntary enlist- 
ment and have been in France. Other thousands have 
followed the progress of the war and the peace negotia- 
tions in the English newspapers. They are familiar with 
such expressions as "self-determination," are awake to 
the new stirrings amongst the nations of the world toward 
democracy, and have sent their educated leaders overseas 
in an attempt to get recognition for their aspirations at 
the Peace Conference. Nowhere in Africa are the native 
peoples in a condition to set up and maintain a democracy 
of their own. Not even in South Africa is the native 



132 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

population fit for a universal exercise of the franchise, 
but there must be provision for the native to participate 
according to his capacity in the making of the laws affect- 
ing himself, and even the raw native has a good degree 
of capacity to participate in methods of government of a 
democratic character, provided they follow the lines of 
native political organization, as, for example, through the 
native council. And as fast as he develops in civilization 
he must be given a civilized man's place in the body 
politic. 

Under the mandatory system there must come a gen- 
eral stabilizing of the conditions of land tenure. The 
German system was to regard all land not actually under 
cultivation as belonging to the Crown. Portugal follows 
the same system. While this system has perhaps wrought 
no great injustice as yet, it is obviously in the interests of 
European settlement and on the theory that the native 
has no rights in the land which the white man is bound 
to respect. South Africa has during the war been en- 
gaged in an experiment of territorial separation which, 
while it would have improved native tenure, was ship- 
wrecked on the selfishness of the white parliamentary 
constituencies which refused to permit a fair allotment 
of land to native areas. The race problem of South 
Africa is to a large degree the native land problem, and 
the success of the missionary enterprise is dependent in 
no small degree upon a right settlement of the land prob- 
lem. Civilized Christian communities cannot be estab- 
lished where migrations due to uncertain tenure, or ex- 
treme poverty due to being crowded oflf the land, make 
settled social and economic conditions impossible. Where 
the aim is the development of a native civilization, as in 
Egypt, land tenure conditions for natives are generally 
fair and generous. Where the aim is to make "a white 
man's country," as in South Africa, it is much more 
difficult to secure just distribution of land. The matter 



THE WAR AND AFRICA 133 

demands most careful attention by missionaries and all 
friends of the natives. 

If the system of mandatories is really to be for the 
benefit of the Africans and not merely a cloak for im- 
perialism, provision must be made for the participation 
by the native in the development of the country's re- 
sources other than as mere peasant laborers. Sugar lands 
have been cut off from native areas confirmed by treaties 
in South Africa and native residents driven from them 
or compelled to remain as laborers, when the people 
might have developed the plantations themselves if given 
sufficient inducement and guidance. The day of the 
capitalistic concession company should pass and give way 
to government experiments in the development of sub- 
ject races, like that of the United States in the Philip- 
pines. The British Government on the Gold Coast has 
shown by actual experience that this is possible, by its 
development of the cocoa industry through encouraging 
the natives to raise the cocoa on a commercial scale. 

The mandatory system offers another opportunity to 
the Christian conscience of the world to wipe out the 
liquor traffic in Africa. The war has put an end tempo- 
rarily to the traffic in the Kamerun and Nigeria. Why 
should not the psychological moment be seized for mak- 
ing universal the prohibition now obtaining over so large 
an area of Africa? 

IV. Effects of the War on Missions 

1. On Missionary Work. 

In view of the great participation of Africa in the 
war, it was inevitable that the disturbance of the mission- 
ary enterprise should be great. It is cause for great 
thankfulness that on the whole the work has gone for- 
ward as usual, with even some remarkable instances of 
speedy recovery from its upset condition and some splen- 
did examples of endurance on the part of the native 
Church. In some districts missionary forces were en- 



134 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

tirely removed or sadly depleted. In German East Af-^ 
rica the work of British societies was entirely broken up, 
the missionaries subjected to gross ill-treatment, and the 
Christian congregations persecuted unmercifully. Ger- 
man missions in Africa have been entirely broken up, 
with the exception of South Africa where they have con- 
tinued throughout the war except for a short period when 
all Germans of military age were interned, including mis- 
sionaries. Many French missionaries were taken for 
military service under French law and many British mis- 
sionaries joined the forces as doctors, chaplains, officers 
in native contingents, and the like. In the Kamerun dur- 
ing the early weeks of the war the work of the American 
Presbyterian Mission was practically paralyzed. Schools 
had to be closed and the people fled in panic to their vil- 
lages. Normal conditions were soon restored except in 
the areas of actual fighting, where almost entire recon- 
struction will be necessary. Property to the value of 
95,000 marks at pre-war valuation was lost to that mis- 
sion by German confiscation and much of it has had to be 
replaced at from fifty to five hundred per cent advance 
in cost. The closing of the Basel and German Baptist 
Missions in North and Central Kamerun has resulted in 
the loss of one important district, that of Bali, to Islam. 

2. On Missionary Opportunity. 

The chief effect on the missionary opportunity is in 
the intellectual and social disturbance it has brought to 
the native mind, as described above. There is created a 
new psychological atmosphere, which is both hopeful and 
dangerous. 

There are most encouraging signs of a less parochial 
attitude on the part of white populations and of colonial 
governments. The war has led to the speeding up of 
liberal movements — such as larger support of native edu- 
cation, intelligent study of the race problem, the appoint- 
ment of men to administrative positions who have a 



THE WAR AND AFRICA 135 

broad-minded interest in the native and who are accept- 
able to the natives, and the extension of larger rights to 
civilized natives, which point toward more self-govern- 
ment and a limited franchise in the near future. 

Certainly under the influence of the mandatory system 
we may expect the removal of restrictions against Prot- 
estant mission work such as have prevailed in some Por- 
tuguese, Spanish, French, and Belgian territories. 

3. On Missionary Method. 

The whole structure of native life is changing and if 
Christianity is to be effective it must engage itself not 
only with making converts, but with the whole problem 
of the readjustment of the life of the African to an indus- 
trial and commercial, as contrasted with a pastoral, en- 
vironment. The missionary must have a social message 
and a social program. In the country districts there 
should be efforts to develop the local resources of forest, 
plantation, home industries, and agriculture, in coopera- 
tion with the Government; cooperative organizations; 
and village improvement. In the industrial centers there 
should be campaigns for better housing, provision for 
legal defense when required, and for leisure time occupa- 
tions, and medical attention and educational opportunity 
should be made possible all through the Church. In some 
instances it may be necessary to bring pressure to bear 
upon the responsible heads of mining and commercial 
concerns to secure better conditions for the labor recruits 
who are frequently under their almost absolute control, 
through the compound system, but careful watching and 
the stimulation of local public opinion will usually be 
sufficient . 

The native Church has shown itself in the trying cir- 
cumstances of the war to have the faith and the staying 
qualities that prove its capacity for a large place in the 
reconstruction plans of the missionary enterprise. Every 
effort should be made to inspire the native Church with 



136 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

the passion for the evangelization of Africa, and world 
missionary organizations should insist that governments 
shall not put unnecessary obstacles in the way of the use 
of the African Christians for the evangelization of the 
heathen. The development of the native Church involves 
giving even greater attention than heretofore to the train- 
ing of native leaders in the ministry and the teaching 
profession, and it is time for a thorough inquiry concern- 
ing the adaptability of present methods to the needs of 
the people. 

All that has been said of the social situation puts new 
emphasis upon the necessity for industrial training. The 
native is being brought into competition with representa- 
tives of a civilization based on industrial efficiency, and 
a smattering of literary training cannot qualify him to 
make for himself even a living. 

The war has put new emphasis upon the necessity for 
cooperation in African missions. Kikuyu has sounded 
the trumpet of advance in its declaration of purpose not 
to rest till all the societies in that area shall share one 
Church and one ministry. There must be greater recog- 
nition of the essential oneness of all Churches in Christ, 
not only theoretically but in the sense of being satisfied 
to leave Christians who may have been converted in a 
particular denomination to the shepherding of another 
denomination if they happen to remove to its district. 
There must be a resurvey and a more definite attempt 
than has yet been made to avoid overlapping in the more 
settled portions of the continent. The disgrace of the 
race for territory by the political denominations of 
Europe has sometimes seemed almost equaled by that 
of the ecclesiastical denominations, with the impor- 
tant difference that great areas are left unevangelized as 
a result of ecclesiastical rivalry, while the Kingdom's 
resources are squandered by the duplication of agencies. 

Finally, American Christianity must take a much 
larger part in the evangelization of Africa. It is gener- 



THE WAR AND AFRICA 137 

ally agreed by authorities that at least a tenfold increase 
in the number of missionary workers must be made if the 
present critical opportunity is not to be wasted. Corre- 
sponding increase must be made in the financial support 
of the work. One great American Church has allocated 
$2,000,000 of money already pledged to its work in Af- 
rica for the next five years. 

Two methods of enlarging the missionary forces pre- 
sent some peculiar difficulties and need most careful 
study. The first is the restoration of the German mis- 
sions. In parts of the Kamerun area it is reported that 
the missionaries identified themselves so completely with 
the German forces that it is doubtful whether the natives 
would welcome them back, but certainly the missionary 
forces of the German Church must again find scope for 
their work in Africa. Strange to say, the Negro Church 
of America finds more difficulty than even our late 
enemies in gaining admission to a share in the redemp- 
tion of Africa, the only mission field possible to it. It 
must be admitted that mistakes due to inexperience and 
to a racial spirit have contributed to the creation of a 
prejudice against these workers in many parts of Euro- 
pean-ruled Africa, but justice and the interests of the 
Kingdom require that the Negro Church be encouraged 
to take its part in saving Africa and that governments be 
urged to make it possible. 



CHAPTER XII 

THE WAR AND THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 
IN MOSLEM LANDS^ 

I. The New Situation between Islam and Chris- 
tianity 

No statement can be made regarding Islam at the 
present day which will not be more or less conjectural. 
These conjectures will be based on our knowledge of 
Islam as it is in its principles, which can be fixed pretty- 
surely; and on its local and temporary phenomena, with 
regard to which we cannot be so sure, or which may, at 
least, be locally and temporarily very contradictory and 
perplexing. It follows, then, that such a report as this 
can be only a basis for future experiment and verifica- 
tion in practical work and should be set forth with that 
qualification distinctly stated. 

1. The Moslem Situation at Present. 

What, then, is the immediate history of our situation, 
leading up to it and conditioning it ? For over a century 
the intellectual, moral, economic, and political life of 
the Moslem peoples has been stimulated from the West 
through schools of all kinds, through Christian missions, 
through trade intercourse, through political experience. 
These stimuli have taken many different forms and have 
had varying local and temporary success, but they have 
all tended to the arousing of thought and personality, of 



1 The several sections in this chapter are from different pens, 
as indicated in the Table of Contents. Each author is responsible 
only for the point of view of his own section. 



THE WAR AND MOSLEM LANDS 139 

self-consciousness and desires. The process of shaking 
the Moslem world awake was at first very slow and 
seemed almost hopeless, but towards the end of the last 
century it went with geometric progression and no one 
can say now that that world is not awake. It is not 
only awake but highly vocal, and the problem now is to 
catch in the din the voices which have real meaning and 
are representative. Naturally there have been reactions 
in intellectual, moral, and political forces from within. 
The wandering scholar-politician al-Afghani and the 
Egyptian Mohammed Abdu were in different ways con- 
spicuous factors in this. Abd al-Hamid with his Pan- 
Islamism was another factor. 

To the last associated itself the political propaganda 
of Germany. The object of that propaganda was to 
unite in one mass all the peoples of Islam and to use 
them as a decisive force in the coming European conflict. 
Apart from it the drift had been rather towards national- 
ism. The Young Turks had been Turks much more than 
Moslems; Persia had in its revolution shown itself dis- 
tinctly Persian, aided in that, no doubt, by its Shi'ite 
sectarianism ; the split of the Arabic-speaking Moslems 
from their Turkish overlords had been growing more 
marked. Only in Egypt, most curiously, the movement 
which called itself nationalistic was much more Moslem 
than Egyptian. This was in great part caused by opposi- 
tion to the Christian overlordship of Great Britain. But 
the endeavor of Pan-Islamism, powerfully backed by the 
German propaganda, was to stimulate again into political 
reality the old unified Islam. 

We all know how that failed. There were little risings 
here and there, but their futility demonstrated finally the 
impossibility of the old Islam, \^^len such risings appear 
now they are more and more a result of local conditions 
and an expression of nationalism rather than of Islam. 
Islam itself, that unique system of a Church- State, is 
splitting up as a conception into two things, a religion in 



140 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

the sense of a spiritual idea and entity, and a number of 
nationalities. 

If this development were carried through logically and 
thoroughly, Islam would assume a form never known 
before and hardly recognizable to Moslems. Such a de- 
velopment is not, of course, immediately to be looked for, 
but undoubtedly it has begun ; and if nationalism can be 
encouraged and political, as opposed to spiritual, unity 
can be discouraged it may effect an entire transformation 
of the Moslem situation. Two elements in that situation 
would especially be affected. In the first place the ques- 
tion of Jihad in its purity would vanish, although the 
name would doubtless be applied to Moslem wars long 
after their nature had changed. Thus it is of the essence 
of Jihad that the whole Moslem world is viewed as a 
unity over against the non-Moslem world. That is, the 
world is divided into Islam and not-Islam. Between 
these two, further, there must exist constant warfare, 
actual or theoretical, until the whole earth becomes Mos- 
lem.^ 

Every war, therefore, between a Moslem state and a 
non-Moslem state is ipso facto, without special statement 
or proclamation, a Jihad. Further, all Moslems and all 
Moslem states are bound to assist one another, because 
of their essential unity over against non-Moslems. It is 
true that this duty is not one incumbent on each indi- 
vidual Moslem per se but on the community, and is suffi- 
ciently carried out when it is carried out by a sufficient 
number for the purpose in the case. It may become a 
duty requiring service en masse, and that was the mean- 
ing of the so-called "proclamation of Jihad" made by the 
Ottoman Sultan. It was a statement by him that the 
situation required that the Moslem world as a whole 
should rise. But in proportion as the Moslem world 
breaks up into nationalities this essential unity will van- 



2 See article "Djihad" in the Leyden "Encyclopedia of Islam." 



THE WAR AND MOSLEM LANDS 141 

ish and Moslem nationalities may come to war against 
one another as easily as against non-Moslem nationalities. 
Religiously, according to canon law, such internecine 
warfare is a great sin, but it has always more or less 
existed and from now on will become more and more 
possible and less and less under theological stigma. Just 
as, since medieval times at least, no two Christian states 
have felt that their common Christianity stood in the 
way of their making war upon one another, so it will be 
in Islam. This may sound like very sardonic irony but 
it represents fairly the facts in the case. The process, 
of course, as indicated above, would of necessity be a 
gradual one. 

In the second place, the status and duties of the Caliph,^ 
if any Caliph continues to exist, will also be changed. 
The Caliph, for Sunnite Islam, is the executive chosen 
by Moslems to administer Islam in the widest sense in 
the whole Moslem world. He is a symbol of the unity 
of that world, a memory of the time when that world was 
really a single centralized empire with himself as its head, 
and a pious expectation of a millennial future when that 
unity will be restored and will extend over the whole 
earth. In theory the Moslem people is a pure democracy, 
but it chooses to administer itself by appointing an indi- 
vidual as its executive and by giving him practically 
absolute powers within the limits of the fundamental 
law of Islam. If, however, he transgresses these limits 
he is liable to violent "recall" ; the people statedly retain 
the sacred right of insurrection. But it is to be observed 
that just as there is no priesthood in Islam and no hier- 
archy of any kind, so the Caliph never has been a Pope 
of any kind. He cannot by his word bind the conscience 
of any Moslem. The Moslems themselves through their 
agreement decide what is Islam and therefore binding; 



3 See two articles in the New York Nation, one, July 16, 1916, 
on "The Caliphate" and one, Nov. 8, 1917, on "The Arabian 
Situation." 



142 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

he can only administer what is thus reached by agree- 
ment. It will be seen, then, that the office of Caliph im- 
plies a unified administration of the affairs of Islam, 
that is, of all affairs, religious and secular, affecting Mos- 
lems. It is not for him to interpret Islam, at least in any 
authoritative way; although possibly he might do it as 
a private scholar for his own edification. That is the 
right and duty of every Moslem in proportion to his 
learning and ability ; he does it, of course, at the risk of 
being wrong, but every qualified Moslem applying him- 
self so to interpret will receive a reward from Allah for 
his labor, even if he is wrong. The Caliph himself for a 
basis for his administration must apply to such students 
of theology and law. It follows, then, that no sovereign 
state can permit its Moslem subjects to profess any kind 
of allegiance to a Caliph. That would be to surrender 
its sovereignty and admit an overlordship of the most 
sweeping kind. 

But although the Caliph never has been a spiritual head 
and although such a conception is alien to the whole 
structure of Islam, is it possible that, among the multi- 
tudinous changes into which Islam is certainly moving, 
such a transformation may come? With the Ottoman 
Empire broken up and shrunken to a mere ghost of its 
former self, as the Papacy has been pictured as the ghost 
of the Roman Empire sitting by the tombs of the Caesars, 
could the Ottoman Sultan remain a symbol of the unity 
of the Moslem world, and his capital, wherever it might 
be, the seat of a high court for the solving of questions 
of Moslem theology and religious law? The question 
suggests at once the problems which confronted English 
sovereigns in their dealings with the medieval Papacy 
and which led to the statute of Premunire and eventually 
to the English Reformation. Or could the King of the 
Hijaz with his capital at the sacred center of the Moslem 
world overcome the handicap of descent from a family, 
that of Qatada, not specially respected, and so adminis- 



THE WAR AND MOSLEM LANDS 143 

ter his tiny realm — ^the land of Pilgrimage — as to show 
himself a worthy successor as well as descendant of the 
Prophet? 

These questions are being asked through the whole 
world of Islam and especially, apparently, among Indian 
Moslems. The situations and attitudes are different in 
the different parts of India, with its very diverse Moslem 
population. Even with that very diversity, however, 
there seems to be growing up there a strange and new 
kind of unity. There are Sunnites, Shi'ites, Khojas, neo- 
Mu*tazilites, etc. — sects which in the older Islam would 
have been absolutely at variance and some of which 
would have denied that the others were Moslems at all. 
For example, the Aga Khan, the hereditary head of the 
Khojas, the old sect of the Isma'ilians or Assassins of 
the Crusades, many of whose followers regard him as an 
incarnation of the Deity, seems to be accepted by Indian 
Moslems in general as a spokesman for them all and is 
said to have ambitions of being chosen Caliph. So John 
of Leyden might have dreamed of being elected Pope! 
And the neo-Mu'tazilites, professing to represent the 
arch-heretics of early Islam, seem to be jealous for the 
unity of the Turkish Empire and the continued Caliphate 
of the Ottoman Sultan. Again, and probably in connec- 
tion with this last movement, there seems to be in India 
a widespread distrust and disHke of the King of the 
Hijaz. That Arabia is not now a unity as it was in its 
first revolt against the Turks is certain. The old frictions 
and jealousies between Hijaz, Hayil, Riyad, Kuweit, etc., 
have reappeared and that may be an element in the Indian 
attitude, for the relationship between India and Farther 
India and the Persian Gulf has been close for many cen- 
turies. Indian Moslems, too, have been affected by their 
environment to a greater degree than even elsewhere. 
The Indian caste system has modified the otherwise abso- 
lute brotherhood of Islam and in the days of Thuggee it 
was apparently possible for a Shi'ite Moslem to be also 



144 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

a Thug. This openness to outside influence, producing 
a curious catholicity, and, with it, a grasping at a shadowy 
remnant of the external unity of Islam seem to be two 
plain elements in the situation. But the sources, implica- 
tions, and probable future of all this are hard to unravel 
and must be determined by the Indian missionaries. 

On another side and under another influence the Mos- 
lem world is changing. The split between the Christian 
powers has helped to clear their ideas upon Christianity. 
This has brought home to them in yet another way that 
they must abandon the old absolute division into Islam 
and Christendom. So-called Christendom — Frankistan, 
or whatever they called it — and Christianity are evidently 
two different things. They must ask themselves next, 
"What, then, is Christianity? Is there actually among 
these peoples something like what our mystics and saints 
teach?" It cannot be overemphasized that all spiritual 
and at the same time intelligent religion in Islam is mys- 
tical. So those who have it will begin to look for the 
same among us. 

There is, then, upon them this double effect : they are 
convinced of the power of Western civilization, and that 
Christianity is another matter. It is for us to teach them 
what that other matter is. In this illumination the part 
taken by Moslems on the Allied side has also been of 
weight. They know very well that they did not fight for 
Christianity, though they fought beside Christians; that 
they did not fight against Moslems as Moslems, but as 
the enemies of their Raj. How this in the long run will 
affect the status of Great Britain, for example, as a Chris- 
tian power is another matter. American missionaries 
may urge the Government of the United States to take up 
a specifically Christian position, but they should reflect, 
also, what the situation would be if considerably more 
than half of the population of the United States were 
Moslem. 

There are, then, two possible steps for Moslems to take : 



THE WAR AND MOSLEM LANDS 145 

they may try out Islam as a spiritual religion; and they 
may lay it alongside Christianity to compare the two. 
The first they will do of themselves. There cannot be 
much doubt that the mysticism of Islam, implicitly in it 
from the first and gradually becoming explicitly its true 
religious aspect and form, will vindicate itself in their 
eyes. Much of the old theologies will go — ^theologies have 
always shown themselves capable of turning inside out at 
need — and the agreement of Islam will remake the old 
canon law. We need not think that Islam, face to face 
with the modern world and modern thought, will commit 
suicide. If left to itself it will simply transform itself 
and, under the new nationalism, it will probably assume 
many different forms. That a stage in the transforming 
process will be a great wave of religious indifference, even 
flat materialism and atheism, is more than probable. It 
has already appeared in the young men who are receiving 
Western education in strictly secular government schools. 
In them the questions of the value and effect of such 
strictly secular education is being worked out to a per- 
fectly clear but most appalling conclusion. Such educa- 
tion is an illustration in brief of the effect of Western 
civilization on the Eastern world when unaccompanied 
by Western religion — the only thing which keeps our 
civilization sweet. 

But when they have begun to compare Islam, so far 
as they may have disentangled it from its past, with 
Christianity as they are coming to know it, how much 
can we say will be fairly clear to them when they of 
themselves consider the two as spiritual religions? 

a. They have probably learned that Christianity does 
not prevent a people which professes it and which in 
great part really holds it, from being good fighters if 
occasion demands. Moslems, semi-Moslems, and con- 
verted Moslems do not have any use for pacifism. Their 
saints have always been capable of terrible wrath, both in 
defense of the Faith and in moral issues which appealed 



146 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

to them, and the darwish fraternities can turn and have 
turned into militant organizations in a moment. Yet 
their feehng for Christianity, in spite of the Crusades 
and later militant Christendom, has been that it is a reli- 
gion which seeks to make sure of the other world at the 
expense of this one. Islam, on the other hand, they have 
held, assures men of both worlds. That position with 
regard to Christianity is hardly possible now and it may 
be, further, that the work of the different humanitarian 
organizations which have followed the Allied armies, 
such as the Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A., has 
shown them another side of Christian interest in this 
world. Perhaps it might be added in this connection that 
the sentimentalist and the "weakling" in the Rooseveltian 
sense should never be sent as a missionary to Moslems. 
They need a man of a strange and contrasted combina- 
tion — an open-air man of the old-fashioned "muscular 
Christianity" school, a Calvinist turned mystic, with a 
liking for metaphysical speculation and discussion, but 
emphatically a man, to be accepted and respected as a 
man. He will vindicate Christianity to them from suspi- 
cion of priestcraft and other-worldliness. 

b. They have learned also that Allah does not, offi- 
cially, disapprove of Christianity, that it is not in his 
eyes a human invention or Satanic device for the snaring 
of mankind, but that its relation to the true Faith is at 
heart a subject for very careful consideration. The shell 
of the Moslem mind has been cracked. This is the result 
of a victory in which, beyond question, official Islam was 
defeated, and the enormous prestige of Constantinople 
and the Sultan-Caliph of the Ottoman Turks was de- 
stroyed. There, if anywhere, centered Islam as a system. 
This was, in great part, the result of the labors of Abd 
al-Hamid and we see it still surviving in the attitude of 
Indian Moslems, mentioned above. It is characteristic 
of German politics that this undoubtedly great prestige 
and even hegemony of the Moslem world was over- 



THE WAR AND MOSLEM LANDS 147 

estimated by them. They left out of account, or under- 
estimated, the fundamental rift in Sunnite Islam between 
the Arabs and the Turks and thus assured the debacle. 
And Allah, by the victory of the Allies, has now stamped 
that prestige and hegemony with his disapproval. This 
must give to all Moslems deep ground for thought. Is- 
lam has never been a religion of lost causes. Allah does 
not chasten the Moslem whom he loves. His hand is 
immediately upon everything and success means his ap- 
proval. 

It is true that with this are to be taken the complica- 
tions set forth above: the attitude of Indian Islam 
towards the Ottoman Sultan and the King of the Hijaz ; 
the question whether the British Empire is specifically 
Christian; the accepted fact that since the annulling of 
the Concordat the only religion recognized by France is 
Islam ; the presence of Moslem troops on the Allied side 
on all fronts; and the support of the Arabs in general 
and of Mecca especially. With it is to be taken the fact 
that the present Turkish Government is eager to disavow 
the Young Turk Committee with its heads and all its 
works, but that deathbed conversion is viewed by the 
Arab world with cynical distrust and contempt ; although 
the Indian world which has not known Turkish rule 
seems willing to accept it. Yet the fact of the official 
debacle abides and by it the will of Allah has been shown. 

c. They probably realize even more than before that 
they must learn as much as they can of every kind of 
knowledge, skill, and training from the Christian world ; 
that the Moslem world has been definitely left behind in 
the race and must put itself to school as did Japan. For- 
merly Moslem reformers believed that they could go 
back into their own past and begin from there a develop- 
ment of their own. Their vanity was tickled by the 
respect paid by the West to the memory of Avicenna, 
Averroes, and others, and they referred with pride to the 
ignorant and misleading articles in our encyclopedias and 



us THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

popular histories on the "Arab civilization," "Arab 
science," "Arab philosophy," and the like. They have 
been driven from all that by the shocks first of economic 
and then of real warfare. 

But, again, they used to mark off the subjects on which 
they were willing to learn from those on which they were 
not willing to learn. The Franks, they admitted, were a 
practical people and in practical matters they had done 
ver\' well. Such things they were willing to learn from 
them. But in philosophy, and above all in religion, the 
Moslem peoples had always led the world and could 
learn nothing from anyone. The impassioned speech to 
this effect by one ^loslem at the Congress of Orientalists 
held at Algiers will be remembered. He warned off all 
non-Moslem scholars from any consideration of the criti- 
cism or exegesis of the Our'an. On the Our'an no Mos- 
lem could or would learn am-thing from a non-]vIoslem. 
But in the nature of the case such an obscurantist attitude 
was bound to vanish and. if there is any weight in the 
considerations urged above, it is vanishing. IMoslems 
are beginning, with a more open mind than ever before, 
to compare Islam and Christianity simply as religions 
and to find links of connection between them. 

2. TJic CJiristkin Attitude in tJic Present Situation. 

If these things are so. what should be the Christian 
attitude? Here there is room for dift'erences of opinion. 
For different missionaries different elements in that atti- 
tude may seem more important. There are certain ques- 
tions, however, which now, more than ever, need to be 
considered. 

a. Can we convince ^loslems that Christianity is a 
real religion and that Christians know what religion in 
its essence is? This may soimd somewhat startling, but 
those who have been in intimate contact with devout 
jMoslems have realized how widespread among them is 
the belief that the peoples of the West are incapable of 



THE WAR AND MOSLEM LANDS 149 

real religion, cannot have the Vision. They may be full of 
good works; may be benevolent and right-hearted; may 
teach and heal. But real religion is an overwhelming 
emotion, an ecstasy in which things unspeakable are per- 
ceived and the unseen spiritual world is reached. They 
know this with the immediate certainty of the mystic 
and they doubt greatly that Christians know it. It must 
be the part, then, of the missionary to convince them as 
to this, and in the new accessibility caused by the general 
stirring and opening of hearts of the time, he ought to 
be able to do so. This need not involve any lowering 
of his standards as to the necessity of conduct going with 
creed, and life and work with faith and insight. The 
Moslem may admit all these in the missionary and yet 
doubt whether he has attained, and can in his faith attain, 
to the vision of the Unseen. 

b. In close contact with this rises the question. Can 
our medical and educational missions be real centers of 
evangelism and of the spiritual life ? Teachers and physi- 
cians are comparatively common ; the divinely illumined 
and fired evangelist is rare, especially the evangelist who 
is not merely a sentimental preacher but who, besides 
his divine certainty, has common sense and humor and 
a power of rational discussion. There has always been 
the risk that the teacher in a mission school might be 
merely a teacher and the physician in the hospital merely 
a physician, and now with the spread of Western educa- 
tion and medicine in the East the Christian Church has 
to face the problem of how it can reach the masses by 
other means. This change, of course, will be slow and 
will vary enormously in different parts of the East. But 
the end. however far off, must be that missionary medi- 
cine and education will be more or less eleemosynary and 
so distinguished from medicine as a profession and from 
the educational system of the State. That is the far-off 
end, but in the meantime such uses of medicine as Dr. 
Harrison's expedition to Riyad. where he could never 



150 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

have gotten except as a physician, will remain, and with 
such adventurous expeditions and pioneerings will remain 
the many far-flung oases of physical help in which the 
Church will always skirmish in advance of the more 
slowly moving State. In education, too, the local oppor- 
tunities and needs will vary, but it is already clear that 
in the mission schools eleemosynary primary education 
and trustworthy higher education — ^trustworthy as guided 
by religion — especially for girls, will continue for long to 
hold their own against state schools. 

But the primary task of the evangelist always remains, 
and it will become increasingly the method of the mission- 
ary. Medicine and education are means only towards 
that end, and education, if not rightly guided, may put 
dynamite under all religion. So we come back to our 
first question, Can the Christian missionary primarily and 
fully vindicate to the Moslem world his faith as a spirit- 
ual, personal religion, apart from the training and knowl- 
edge which that world is coming to recognize as belonging 
to the Western civilization, religious or irreligious ? 

c. Can we convince Moslems that their democratic 
unity will not suffer under Christianity — ^that they can 
preserve the brotherhood and democracy of Islam while 
becoming Christians ? This, again, may seem a somewhat 
startling question when we consider the present tendency 
among us to trace back democracy to "the Christian idea 
of the divine worth of personality." But we must face 
the fact that Sunnite Islam is in theory as pure a democ- 
racy as the world has ever seen and that in practice the 
recognition of the tie of brotherhood between all Mos- 
lems has gone further than that between Christians since 
the first Christian century. The early Church rose above 
all divisions of race, color, or servitude, but the mission- 
ary Church has never been able to maintain the like ideal. 
The Moslem who becomes a Christian discovers that he 
has also become a "native," if he has not become a "nig- 
ger." How this is to be met we may not know, but the 



THE WAR AND MOSLEM LANDS 151 

democratic hopes springing up everywhere in the East 
and the fraternization between the most diverse races 
which the Allied armies have seen make the problem only 
the more immediate. Some solution must be found, some 
vindication of Christian love, unity, and justice — of the 
universality, we may say, of Christ's life and death. 

d. A question even more fundamental than these is, 
Can we convince Moslems that any religion is worth 
while ? The West is flooding in upon them. By its teach- 
ing and demonstration of the reign of physical law in the 
world it has sapped even their belief in the supremacy 
of the will of Allah. Everything points to a debacle of 
spiritual ideas and ideals before the crudest materialism. 
The materialism, in fact, which Europe is rejecting they 
are taking up. This has been working for long in insid- 
ious forms through Western schools and literature. 
Now the inherent materialism of war and of economic 
pressure is bringing it to a head. A similar crisis arose 
once before in Islam when Greek philosophy and science 
flooded the Moslem world. Al-Ghazzali describes the 
situation to us most vividly in his "Munqidh" ; he tells 
how it affected himself and how he was saved. All 
his books and his own life as a teacher were devoted to 
stemming the same tide in others. 

Before this the old, calm, assured, unthinking Islam 
is breaking down. Individual Moslems are taking refuge 
in the particular strongholds of faith which appeal to 
them. It may be, with the masses, in crude superstitions ; 
it may be in trust in legalism, in the exact performance 
of the requirement of the canon law backed by the com- 
fort of old habit ; it may be in reverence for their national 
and religious past, making of religion a form of patriot- 
ism ; it may be in different forms of mysticism, some 
fantastic enough and for us verging close on superstition. 
The background of legalism, also, is often a mystical 
attitude or explanation, and the patriotic attitude may 
accompany all the others. 



152 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

In some of these tendencies we, as Christians, can have 
neither lot nor part. But of two, at least, we must take 
account, for there is nothing in them essentially anti- 
Christian or non-Christian; they are expressions of uni- 
versal human yearning and as such form part of every 
religion. 

(1) Can we, first, meet their mystical yearnings? 
Can we so state, explain, and illustrate the essence of the 
Christian Verity, both in our doctrine and in our reli- 
gious attitude and ways, that Moslems will see that it 
takes the Christian immediately into the presence of God 
and that it can open for those suitably gifted by God the 
possibility of the '^charismata'* which the early Church 
knew and which Moslems still know and call similarly 
Karamatf We must make a more careful study of this 
emotional religious life; admit its legitimacy, meaning, 
and value, while guarding against its certain dangers ; 
and not try to turn the more susceptible and highly 
wrought Oriental into a sober-minded Presbyterian or 
Episcopalian. These religious phenomena which we asso- 
ciate with the ignorant and unlearned and which we 
therefore feel should be suppressed and avoided, have 
always in Islam been possible for the most highly trained 
theologians. In Islam there has never been anything in 
them that is repulsive to culture of good taste, of mind, 
or of morals. An Egyptian convert, since gone to his 
Lord, a man of high education, once related to the writer 
how he had, in his Moslem days, such experiences and 
how his Shaykh in consequence said to him, 'Thou art a 
Wall (a Saint)." "Then," he added with a smile, "I was 
a Saint; now I am a Christian." But the smile was rather 
a crooked one, for the change and loss had puzzled him. 
His new environment did not encourage such manifesta- 
tions. In the careful study of this emotional religious life 
it will be important to consider to what extent and in what 
form the Dhikr (Zikr) can be transformed into a Chris- 
tian service for praise and edification. In Islam it is a 



THE WAR AND MOSLEM LANDS 153 

closely knit combination of fixed ritual and free emotional 
expression, and much has been written by Moslems on the 
relation and mutual subordination of the two. Of all that 
account would have to be taken. The possibility, mean- 
ing, and value of the Karamat in the Christian dispensa- 
tion would have to be studied, and a consistent attitude 
towards them reached. They come and go with the 
breathing of the Spirit ; cannot be produced at will ; can 
be judged only by their spiritual value, outcome, and 
fruits. In dealing with them it has never been easy even 
for Islam to strike a straight path between quenching the 
Spirit on the one hand and falling into crude superstition 
on the other. These last days of manifold exaltation 
have led in Islam to both, and we must be ready in one 
way or another to meet the issues. 

(2) Can Christianity be given to Moslems in such a 
form as not to estrange them from their historical past? 
Can it make the change a development for them and not, 
so far as their history is concerned with its historical 
figures and sentiments, an unconditioned revolution ? An 
Arab poet has said: 

**Not in vain the nations' gropings, nor by chance the 
currents flow ; 
Error-mazed yet truth-directed, to their certain goal 
they go." 

Can we find a place even for Islam in this divine guid- 
ance and place the great names of Islam on the record 
of the progress of the world? For we can never forget 
that for the Moslem his religion has been his patriotism 
and that even now the sharpened and ever-growing feel- 
ing of nationalism is always combined in one degree or 
another with allegiance to Islam and its past. 

This problem will be brought to its straitest issue if 
we ask, "What place shall we find for Mohammed in the 
memory of the converted Moslems?'* For all Moslems 
he is the Messenger of Allah, the Last, the especially 
Chosen, with a halo of centuries of reverence around his 



154 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

head. For very many of them he was the first made of 
all creatures ; for his sake Allah created the worlds ; as 
nearly as could be we have the Arian doctrine of the 
Person of Christ. Besides that, for all Arabs he is the 
great Arabian ; no other like to him has sprung from their 
race. For all Arabic speakers he is the greatest artist 
in the Arabic language; the Qur'an for all whose native 
tongue is Arabic, even for Christians, is the greatest work 
in Arabic literature. Face to face with these facts to call 
him simply the Great Impostor, the False Prophet, is an 
impossibly crude solution. It is perfectly true that Mos- 
lems when they embrace Christianity and turn from their 
former faith often deal with Mohammed as Dante dealt 
with his enemies in the "Inferno," but that will not be 
possible for sober thought and feeling in the long run. 
It ignores historical fact, human sentiment, and even the 
slow but steady working of God's providence. In a situa- 
tion like the present, an evident turning point in history, it 
is for the Christian Church to recognize the unity of his- 
tory and to find attitudes and expressions which will 
safely lead the gropings of nations and men to their 
certain goal. It may help in this to remember that Islam 
essentially in its origin and through its theological devel- 
opment has been and is a Christian heresy — though, it 
may be, a deadly one. Heresies can purge themselves and 
be reabsorbed into the Church. 

II. The Effect of the War on Certain Mohamme- 
dan Lands 

1. MOHAMMEDANISM IN EGYPT 

The entrance of Turkey into the war and its downfall 
after a prolonged struggle naturally created immense re- 
percussion, owing to the fact that Turkey was one of the 
few remaining independent Islamic nations and, still 
more, that its Sultan is reckoned the Caliph, or political 
suzerain of Islam.* The war was not the first warning 



* The best analogy would be the Emperor in the old Holy 



THE WAR AND MOSLEM LANDS 155 

which Britain received that trouble with Turkey would 
always mean trouble in Egypt. Already in 1906 an awk- 
ward boundary dispute with Turkey, known as the Tur- 
Sinai incident, had made Egyptian Mohammedans look 
very ugly and had shown clearly what was to be expected 
whenever England and Turkey should be found on oppo- 
site sides. The Italian war in Libya in 1911 and the first 
Balkan war still further roused the sympathies of Egyp- 
tians for their Caliph. 

The enthusiasm for the Caliph — and especially a Tur- 
kish Caliph — has no doubt been almost entirely created 
by Mohammedan dislike for Christian overrule ; but this 
does not make that enthusiasm any less real, or, at any 
rate, any less troublesome. Nevertheless, the fact should 
be noted. For some time the very claim of Turkey to the 
Caliphate was unknown in these very lands. For a still 
longer time it was entirely ignored ; or, if discussed, was 
discussed as an academic question open to grave theo- 
retic objection. Then, as now, it was directly denied by 
many sections of Moslems. Up to the reign of Abd al- 
Hamid it was as moribund and devoid of significance as 
the dodo would be if he happened to exist. That which 
has galvanized it into life, given it power — not for any 
fruitful work, but for making mischief — is the dominance 
of Western Christians over Eastern Mohammedans, and 
the realization of malcontents in these lands and of ambi- 
tious persons in Turkey itself that here they have an 
enormous asset for their propaganda. The proof of this 
— if it were needed — is that in lands which like Afghani- 
stan and the Sudan states are, or were, politically con- 
tented, there was never the smallest enthusiasm for the 
Caliphate of Turkey, if it was believed in at all. Belief 
in it certainly never prevented Mohammed AH from fight- 
ing Turkey tooth and nail ; never prevented Arabi Pasha 
from striving to free Egypt from the lingering traces of 

Roman Empire; the place of the Pope, however, being taken by 
a Catholic consensus interpreted by Doctors of the Law. 



156 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

old Turkish dominance; never prevented Turkey from 
being shamefully and continually flouted in North Af- 
rica and even in Arabia, the cradle of Islam. 

So when the war came on and Turkey was bidden into 
the struggle by German and Young Turkish ambitions, 
the sympathies of all Egyptian Moslems became definitely 
fixed as anti-Ally. Even the Khedive, Abbas II, became 
a popular hero, because he threw in his lot with Turkey. 
No more need be said ! The serious thing to remember 
is, however, not that the effendi, or town class, became 
more difficult than ever — that was expected — but that the 
way was prepared psychologically for that far more seri- 
ous thing, the alienation of the fellaheen, or country class, 
who outnumber the former as seven to one. The reli- 
gious sympathies, prejudices, and loyalties of the fella- 
heen were this time thoroughly stirred. It only remained 
to touch their pockets, and they were lost to the Allies. 
And this very end, by bad management and bad luck, was 
achieved by the Labor Corps and requisitioning questions. 
Hence the participation of the fellaheen class in the anti- 
British outbreaks of the spring — ^the one new, regrettable, 
and disquieting feature. 

The defeat of Turkey was at first believed to be im- 
possible. Then, when facts became too strong even for 
the Egyptians, it was discounted and regarded as irreJe^ 
vant. Germany would win in the West, and then ,3ll 
would be well. When even this hope failed, the political 
excitement was not therefore allayed: it had risen far 
too high for that. Aroused Pan-Islamism will not be 
wholly dependent on the Caliph question as its point 
d'appui; and so the fact that that question is becoming 
rather obscure does not lessen the political strain. Tur- 
key has still sympathizers in all Mohammedans. The 
odium to be expected from her partition and from any 
anti-Islamic solution of the Constantinople question is 
too valuable an asset to warrant the open disowning of 
the Ottoman by the Mohammedan world. Nevertheless 



THE WAR AND MOSLEM LANDS 157 

it is probable that his day is now reahzed as over, and 
that new combinations must be looked for and worked 
for. And here comes in the importance of the Arab 
question in Syria and Palestine. 

At first the emergence of Arabia as anti-Turkish, while 
it raised enthusiasm in Syria, left Egypt perfectly cold. 
A ballon d'essai which was sent up to see how the idea 
of an Arab Caliphate would be welcomed, flopped feebly 
to earth again. The reason is obvious : it was believed 
that the King of the Hijaz was under the thumb of 
Britain, and that the Caliphate would be a mere creature 
of British imperialism. Therefore, if more eager and 
sympathetic looks are now beginning to be turned 
towards Prince Faisul and an Arab kingdom of Damas- 
cus, this is only because Moslems are beginning to think 
and hope that Prince Faisul intends to act for himself 
and is capable of causing trouble to all Christian manda- 
tory powers whatever. 

In regard to the internal politics of Egypt the war, the 
avowed aims of the Allies, the Peace Conference, the 
utterances of President Wilson, have of course given the 
politicians a chance such as Mustapha Kamil, the nation- 
alist leader of Lord Cromer's time, never had to push for 
independence with all their might. The Copts have joined 
in, although the evidence is overwhelming that except in 
the case of some of the younger spirits of the towns, 
their participation is insincere, fear-bred. The school- 
boys and students have gone mad on politics, and work 
suffers. There is also in the Nile Valley the usual crop 
of strikes, without which no self-respecting country is at 
present complete. There were doubtless many economic 
grievances that needed to be removed, and it was possible 
cordially to wish the strikers good luck in this effort to 
remove them. But it becomes more and more evident 
that at the back of the economic agitation is revolutionary 
intrigue, that the men are being exploited by the political 
clubs. 



158 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

Such are some of the reactions of the war upon this 
prosperous but disgruntled land. And the future ? Who 
knows? Much depends on the British commission and 
its willingness and ability to test all things unsparingly 
and to escape official leading strings. More still depends 
upon whether Englishmen show, by the way they act 
during the coming months, how far they still deserve 
their long-standing reputation in this land for ability, 
energy, and honesty. 

2. MOHAMMEDANISM IN ARABIA 

In discussing the present situation between Islam and 
Christianity there is one point which is often not suffi- 
ciently emphasized, namely, the effect upon Moslem lands 
of the spirit of international brigandage which has 
marked world politics in the Near East, especially since 
1911. We shall not understand the disappointment and 
collapse of Moslem hopes unless we realize that long 
before the war in Europe the Near East suffered gross 
injustice from the European powers. W. Morgan Shu- 
ster wrote in his book, "The Strangling of Persia," that 
"only the pen of a Macaulay or the brush of a Vereshcha- 
gin could adequately portray the rapidly shifting scenes 
attending the downfall of this ancient nation — scenes in 
which two powerful and presumably enlightened Chris- 
tian countries played fast and loose with truth, honor, 
decency, and law, one, at least, hesitating not even at 
the most barbarous cruelties to accomplish its political 
designs and to put Persia beyond hope of self-regenera- 
tion." Whatever may have been the lack of tact and 
diplomacy on the part of Mr. Shuster, we cannot doubt 
his record of the acts of aggression, deceit, and cruelty 
committed by Russian agents in Persia since 1909. The 
Anglo-Russian agreement of 1907 was discussed by the 
Moslem press throughout the world, and the general 
comment was that the Christian nations were bent on 



THE WAR AND MOSLEM LANDS 159 

destroying Islam by political intrigue for the purpose of 
gain and exploitation. 

It is well for us to remember that the Arabs and the 
Egyptians were discussing the battle of diplomacy for 
the control of the Near East and commented on its reli- 
gious significance long before German propaganda and 
the entrance of Turkey into the war precipitated the 
downfall of the Caliphate. 

There is considerable evidence that the anti-Turkish 
movement not only in the Hijaz but also in Mesopotamia 
and Hassa was stimulated by outside influence. Of this 
the Arabs were not ignorant, and the result has naturally 
been a reaction. Arabia has never had real unity in its 
political program, but all the Arabs are devoted to Islam, 
and when they think their religion is imperiled or inter- 
fered with the old frictions and jealousies often disap- 
pear. This was the case to a large degree at the time 
of the Wahabi revolt, and it may occur again. In spite of 
much that has been said to the contrary, the Arabs hardly 
trust the British as guardians or overlords of the sacred 
cities. The Sherif of Mecca would probably have had 
small following if he and his followers had not been 
heavily subsidized by the Allies in their war against Tur- 
key. It is the artificial character of the alliance that 
from the outset proved its danger if not its futility. The 
setting up of the independent Arabian kingdom of the 
Hijaz was not so much a case of self-determination as a 
result of clever diplomacy. 

The decision against Turkey, first on the battlefield 
and later at Paris, has met with disappointment in Arabia. 
Dr. Paul W. Harrison writes, June 3, 1919, just after a 
long stay in the interior: "The war is over, and we are 
settling down. It is too soon to be sure just what we are 
settling down to. All the local sentiment is anxious, to a 
degree that is really very surprising, to have Constan- 
tinople restored to the Turks. Evidently in their minds 
the dignity of the Ottoman Empire hangs on it." 



160 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

The new movement of the Ikhwan is the religious re- 
action. Their numbers are growing rapidly, and Bin 
Saoud is encouraging them because no troops are so 
likely to be efficient as those stirred by fanaticism. "Bin 
Saoud," writes Dr. Mylrea of Kuweit, "can count on no 
outside help save the Ikhwan ; he has quarreled with the 
Sheikh of Kuweit, who now sides with the Sherif , and al- 
though to a certain extent Bin Rashid has been defeated 
by Bin Saoud, it is doubtful whether Bin Saoud will gain 
the Shammar Arabs (Bin Rashid's great tribe) as his fol- 
lowers. Bin Saoud would probably be more popular were 
he not so aggressively religious. The day has gone by 
when men will submit to being stoned to death for being 
lax in prayer, when men will put up with severe punish- 
ment because they have been casual, say, in keeping the 
fast of Ramadan. The writer is assured that the sub- 
jects of Bin Saoud are compelled to be religious. The 
Ikhwan will even shoot a man for smoking, according to 
popular report; in fact they say that by so doing they 
save his soul from perdition and he goes direct to the 
Jenna, whereas Jehannum would most assuredly be his 
fate did he continue to live on in his sin."^ 

The expulsion of the Turk and the movements in con- 
nection with the war have given access to certain parts 
of Arabia which heretofore were closed. Our mission- 
aries have visited Riyad twice, and resided for a long 
period at Hofhuf. The fanaticism so characteristic of 
Jiddah has been controlled or abolished through the war, 
and at the time of a recent visit it seemed possible that 
should conditions remain as they were work might be 
begun by a medical mission and Bible distribution. A 
Danish missionary has reopened work for his society at 
Aden and the defeat of the Turks in Yemen will perhaps 
open the hinterland for missionary touring, as it cer- 
tainly will for trade and development. Mesopotamia 



5 See Moslem World, July, 1919. 



THE WAR AND MOSLEM LANDS 161 

since the British occupation has seen enormous changes 
in the matter of communication and economic develop- 
ment. What the policy of the British Government will 
be on educational lines is not known. There are rumors 
to the effect that if the program is followed which was 
carried on in the Sudan and Nigeria it may lead to a 
distinct revival of Islam and its strengthening for the 
time being. 

There is one other phase of the situation that deserves 
attention. The military occupation and the settled gov- 
ernment in Mesopotamia are already leading to a closer 
contact between the Mohammedans of Arabia and of 
India. Not only have communications been greatly in- 
creased but a large army of laborers, clerks, and traders 
from the Punjab, from South India, and especially from 
Bombay, are settling all the way from Busrah to Bagdad. 
The question of immigration will doubtless have its 
effects on missions, and also on the future character of 
Islam in the mixture of races. British occupation will 
also mean greater facilities for pilgrimage to Kerbela 
and Nejf, and therefore a close linking up with Persian 
Mohammedans. 

3. MOHAMMEDANISM IN INDIA 

The present situation in India as regards Islam is con- 
ditioned by a variety of movements, political, social, and 
religious, which came to a head in the Great War. From 
1907 to 1910 Indian Moslems were quiet and trustful. 
They were pleased with the partition of Bengal and with 
the promise of communal representation. From 1911 
to 1912 they were less quiet and inclined to be suspicious. 
It was the period of the Italo-Turkish War, the re-parti- 
tion of Bengal, and the Balkan War. With the Turkish 
recovery of Adrianople in 1913 there was better feeling. 
Then came the war in 1914 in which Turkey was arrayed 
against Britain. The force of this antagonism, however, 
was to some extent broken by the fact that, if Turkey 



162 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

was on the side of the Central Powers, the Arabs were 
on the side of the Allies. Of the 300,000 combatants who 
went from the Punjab, a fair proportion were Moham- 
medans, and doubtless they were comforted by the 
thought that since Mohammedans were fighting on both 
sides it was in no real sense a religious war. 

The feeling among Indian Moslems at the close of the 
war may be tentatively expressed in some such way as 
this. There was, first of all, a disheartening sense of 
a further decline in the prestige of Islam, at least as 
politically organized. Turkey had collapsed and Persia 
was in a chaotic condition. This was followed by the 
foolish and compromising effort of the young Amir of 
Afghanistan in his attempt to invade India. If independ- 
ent Moslem states vanish from the earth, there may still 
remain a new and more spiritual type of Islam, delivered 
as it would be from the incubus of political corruption 
and inefficiency due to its connection with Moslem states. 
We may recall that Hebrew prophecy reached its greatest 
heights during the Babylonian captivity. 

There was, secondly, the hope that Great Britain would 
save as much as possible of the Turkish power in view of 
the large number of Indian Mohammedans who had 
fought on the side of the Allies. A Turkish delegation 
actually visited Paris with this in mind, but received no 
encouragement from the Peace Conference. This hope 
being disappointed, there is finally a state of groping and 
uncertainty among Indian Moslems, some making com- 
mon cause with the Hindu Nationalists, others siding 
with the Government of India, and all being in a state 
of bewilderment. 

The result of this is that Indian Mohammedans are 
now especially open to wise and tactful approach. The 
experience of Rev. Howard Walter and Professor Siraj 
ud Din in the investigation of Indian Sufism indicates 
that there is a large body of Indian Mohammedans hold- 
ing mystical doctrines which make them especially open 



THE WAR AND MOSLEM LANDS 163 

to a sympathetic Christian approach. Mohammedans like 
to talk over things with Christians who are large-hearted 
and kindly. They are making comparison, as perhaps 
never before, between the Bible and the Qur'an, between 
Jesus and Mohammed.^ India has received in various 
ways an unusual preparation for a more liberal and open 
attitude toward the religion of Jesus Christ. The Ali- 
garh College, founded by Sir Saiyed Ahmad, has been a 
nursery of liberalism, the tenets of the founder approxi- 
mating to the Mu'tazilite doctrines. The Ahmadiya sect, 
founded by Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, represents a dis- 
integrating tendency. Very many Mohammedan youths 
have read in mission schools and colleges. Indian Mos- 
lems have also been profoundly affected by their Hindu 
environment. The Aga Khan is the head at the same 
time of a Mohammedan sect, the Khojas, and of a Hindu 
sect, the Shamsis. Many Mohammedan shrines are fre- 
quented by Hindus. Between Moslem saint worship and 
Hindu saint worship there is practically no difference. 
The late Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian posed not 
only as the promised Messiah of the Christians and Mo- 
hammedans, but also as the promised Avatar of the 
Hindus. As a result of all these influences, partly liberal- 
izing and partly disintegrating in their tendency, Indian 
Islam is in unstable equiHbrium and is ripe for aggressive 
Christian evangelism of a wise and sympathetic type. 

4. MOHAMMEDANISM IN MALAYSIA 

With the exception perhaps of China, no Mohamme- 
dan country in the world has been more remote from 
the activities and influences of the war than Malaysia. 
Moreover, the vast majority of the Moslems in Malaysia 
are living under the rule of Holland, and were therefore 
neutrals. Of the 37,000,000 Moslems of Malaysia, only 



6 See, for example, the pamphlet written by a Mohammedan 
inquirer, reported by Dr. E. M. Wherry in the Moslem World, 
July, 1919. 



164 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

2,000,000 are in the British area, and of the remaining 
35,000,000, no less than 30,000,000 are on the one island 
of Java. It will perhaps be best to deal with these Brit- 
ish and Dutch areas separately. 

a. The British Area. 

The great center of Mohammedan propaganda in Ma- 
laysia is the city of Singapore. This is partly accounted 
for by the geographical location of this important sea- 
port and partly by the fact that the Malays of the Penin- 
sula and of the adjacent coast of Sumatra have always 
been the most aggressive of all the Malayan races in 
propagating their religion. Penang, a seaport 350 miles 
north of Singapore, is probably second in importance to 
Singapore as a center of Moslem influence. It should be 
noted that in these two centers of population the Moham- 
medans are completely outnumbered by the Chinese. 
Even on the Malay Peninsula the Chinese far outnum- 
ber the Malays in all the towns, and it is only in the 
country districts that the Mohammedans are in the ma- 
jority. This distribution of the population has made it 
very much easier to control the Mohammedans in the 
British area than it was in the Dutch area even before 
the war. 

All through the war there never was the slightest doubt 
as to the loyalty of the Malays to their British rulers 
and advisers. In an Indian Mohammedan regiment, sta- 
tioned at Singapore, there was a mutiny in February, 
1915, which however was speedily put down by the Brit- 
ish regular troops and volunteers, assisted by the Sultan 
of Johore's Malay troops. Those mutineers who con- 
cealed themselves in the jungle were hunted down by 
Malays and Dayaks, who were brought over from North 
Borneo for that purpose. 

The inquiry with reference to the cause of the mutiny 
revealed the fact that a Gujerati merchant from Bombay 
had incited the men of the Indian regiment to mutiny, 



THE WAR AND MOSLEM LANDS 165 

by promising to get the Turkish Government to send a 
warship to Singapore to cooperate with mutineers. This 
man actually wrote a letter to the Turkish consul at Ran- 
goon, asking him to send a warship to capture the city 
of Singapore, and promising that the Mohammedans 
would rise against the British. This letter of course fell 
into the hands of the censor, and led to the conviction 
and execution of the Gujerati man. The mutiny was 
undoubtedly the work of a few agitators, and only a part 
of the regiment was affected. At the time of the mutiny 
there was considerable excitement and anxiety in the 
country districts on the Malay Peninsula, where a few 
scattered Europeans were living in very isolated positions 
surrounded by large numbers of Mohammedan Malays. 
It is probable that there were a few disloyal Indians here 
and there, but there was never any question as to the 
loyalty of the Malays, who for hundreds of years have 
prided themselves that no Malay was ever a rebel against 
his rulers. 

The prosperity of all the Malay States on the Malay 
Peninsula since they came under British protection and 
tutelage has been so marked, and the security of life 
and property at the present time is such a contrast to the 
conditions which existed when the Malay rulers did as 
they pleased, that the common people are undoubtedly 
well satisfied with the rule of the British. Nevertheless 
there are no doubt a few ardent Mohammedans who 
chafe under the authority of a Christian government, and 
look forward to the day when Islam shall be supreme. 
In the Malay newspapers one often comes upon some 
expression indicating the intense interest which is felt 
in the Far East in the Ottoman Empire, and the firm 
belief they have (or had before the war) in the might 
and invincibility of Turkey, which they used to believe 
was one of the great powers of the world. 

The defeat of Turkey in the Balkan War in 1912 and 
1913 was a severe shock to the leading spirits among the 



166 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

Malay people at that time, and the complete collapse of 
the Ottoman Empire in the Great War will probably have 
a still more marked effect in destroying their confidence 
in the Sultan of Turkey as the hope of Islam in a mili- 
tary sense. The British Government printed during the 
war, and posted broadcast on the Peninsula, large post- 
ers in the Malay language to inform the Malays of the 
divisions in the Turkish Empire, and of the fact that the 
Arabs were fighting against the Turks. That the Mo- 
hammedans in the Ottoman Empire should be fighting 
one another made a great impression upon the Malays. 
Subsequently the Malays themselves put up posters^ — 
no doubt with the consent of the British Government — 
stating that the old regime in Turkey was out of date, 
and urging the Malays to side with the new government. 
In considering the Mohammedan situation in Singa- 
pore it should be remembered that the Malays of the 
Peninsula get their political ideas chiefly from Egypt. 
Newspapers printed in Egypt are the principal source 
of information as to the affairs of the Moslem world 
which reaches the Malays. In Penang and the northern 
part of the Peninsula, on the other hand, Indian influ- 
ences are much stronger, and Mohammedan newspapers 
from India would naturally be read to a much greater 
extent. The Islamic Review, published in London in the 
English language, is widely read by English-speaking 
Moslems in Malaysia. Thus through the newspapers 
from other lands the Malays are kept in touch more or 
less with the current of thought in the Mohammedan 
world. 

b. The Dutch Area. 

In the Netherlands Indies the Pan-Islamic movement 
had been much more in evidence long before the war 
than it ever had been in the British area. The principal 
reason for this was probably the fact that the native peo- 
ple have never been so contented under Dutch rule as 



THE WAR AND MOSLEM LANDS 167 

those in the Malay Peninsula and North Borneo have 
been under British rule. In all parts of the Archipelago 
the natives have always greatly resented the poll tax and 
the forced labor on the roads which are exacted by the 
Dutch. Moreover, the attitude of the Dutch towards the 
natives has never been as conciliatory as that of the Brit- 
ish. The Dutch officials realize the inadequacy of their 
military force in the event of a general uprising, and 
seem to think that it is necessary to keep the people in 
subjection. Their native troops are mostly Christians 
from Amboina. Hurgronje's book ''Nederland en de 
Islam" indicates that he and other government officials 
have been keeping a very close watch on the Mohamme- 
dan question in its relation to the colonial government. 
During the war there has been a serious revolt against 
the Dutch Government at Djambi, on the east coast of 
Sumatra, which, however, appears to have been put down 
without much difficulty. 

In former years the Dutch Government was decidedly 
opposed to the work of Christian missions among the 
Mohammedans, but recently a great change has taken 
place in this respect, and the present Governor-General 
is strongly in favor of the efforts which are being made 
to win the Moslems, especially along the Hnes of medical 
mission work. 

In considering the effect of the war in the Dutch Indies, 
it must not be forgotten that a very strong pro-German 
propaganda was carried on in the Dutch colonial papers 
all through the war. Up to the last the pro-Germans re- 
fused to admit that Germany was beaten. This attitude 
was probably reflected to some extent in the Malay and 
Javanese newspapers, and may have encouraged the na- 
tives to hope for the ultimate triumph of Germany and 
Turkey. The confidence of the Malay Mohammedans 
in the Ottoman Empire, which exists in the Dutch area 
as it does in the British, may thus have been bolstered up 
for a while. Nevertheless Dr. Gunning, the Dutch Mis- 



168 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

sion Secretary, on his return from Java eight months ago, 
declared that the opportunity for work among Moham- 
medans in the Dutch Indies was never more favorable 
than at that time. This would seem to indicate that the 
Pan-Islamic movement is practically dead in the Dutch 
colonies. The hindrances to the annual exodus of Java- 
nese to Mecca for the pilgrimage during a period of five 
years have probably resulted in a considerable diminution 
in the number of active propagators of the Mohammedan 
religion. Dr. Gunning's opinion that the present is the 
most favorable opportunity the Church has ever had for 
work among the Mohammedans of the Netherlands 
Indies should encourage the mission boards to undertake 
a more definite and extensive campaign, especially along 
the lines of medical work and the dissemination of good 
wholesome literature. 

5. MOHAMMEDANISM IN CHINA 

In the article on China in "The Encyclopedia of Is- 
lam'' Professor Hartmann sums up what is known re- 
garding the subject, basing his statistics largely on the 
estimates made by Broomhall. He speaks of two chief 
sects among Chinese Moslems, and says that they do not 
recognize the Caliphate in Turkey nor the Sherif of 
Mecca as having special authority. Nevertheless, Mr. 
Ogilvie and the writer found in a tour in 1917, while 
visiting Moslems in Honan Province, Peking, Hankow, 
and Nanking, that there were distinct evidences of Turk- 
ish-German propaganda. Cheap colored portraits of 
Enver Pasha were discovered in the waiting-rooms of 
some of the mosques, and a keen interest regarding the 
effect of the war on the future of the Ottoman Empire 
was discernible. At Peking a striking document in this 
connection was seen, a letter signed by the leading Mo- 
hammedans and addressed to President Wilson in the 
shape of a friendly petition. After reciting the effects 
of the war on economic conditions in China, it attributed 



THE WAR AND MOSLEM LANDS 169 

its cause to the pride of the Kaiser and the folly of the 
Sultan of Turkey. These two men were regarded as the 
leaders of the Central Powers and the others concerned 
were designated as mere followers. 

According to Hartmann^ Enver Pasha was sent to 
China by Abd al-Hamid in 1900 to carry on propaganda 
with a view to the recognition of the Caliph. This failed. 
Afterwards an important ahong, named Wang Kuan, 
visited Constantinople. The result of his visit was the 
sending of two Turkish teachers to Peking, where they 
established a school in 1907. They also traveled about 
the country, but the Chinese Government did not counte- 
nance this Turkish intrigue. 

Generally speaking, the war was too distant to affect 
Chinese Islam. There were, however, attempts at a re- 
vival of Mohammedanism in China which may have been 
stimulated by Western influences, and which coincided 
with the outbreak of the war. A magazine was started in 
Peking of which the first issue was also the last. An- 
other had a longer existence and was published at Yun- 
nan-fu. The articles in this magazine emphasized the 
sad condition of Islam in China and its critical future. 
One of its leading editorials is summarized in the Mos- 
lem World for January, 1919, as follows : Learning is 
decadent; the religion of Islam is misunderstood; the 
mullahs do not fulfil their duty; Moslems are degraded 
and occupied with outward forms; Christianity gains 
prestige and overrides Islam ; while the last reason given 
is that the economic condition of the Moslems is daily 
becoming more straitened. 

A more hopeful feature of the situation is the decided 
revival of Christian missionary interest in the Moslems 
of China. The China Continuation Committee appointed 
a special committee on work for Moslems in the summer 
of 1917, including Moslem converts as members. This 



7 Page 854. 



170 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

committee has undertaken a thorough survey of the 
field, arranged for special conferences on the subject, 
published a survey of Mohammedan literature in Chinese 
and Arabic, and is now preparing a series of tracts and 
books specially suited for Mohammedans. The British 
and Foreign Bible Society has published a bilingual edi- 
tion of St. Matthew, to be followed by St. John, and it 
proposes to publish the Arabic-Chinese Qur'an text with 
Christian comment. A primer on Islam and the spiritual 
needs of Mohammedans in China has been prepared and 
published in the Chinese Church. The secretary of work 
for Moslems issues a bulletin which is sent out to over 
600 missionaries scattered throughout the provinces. 
Apart from the work of the Continuation Committee, 
Mr. Isaac Mason writes (July 3, 1919) that he has pre- 
pared and is publishing a Chinese edition of "Sweet 
First-Fruits" and "Christ in Islam" and a "Life of Mo- 
hammed" in Wenli. 

Attention should be called to the report in the Chinese 
Recorder for October, 1917, of findings at the missionary 
conference held during the summer of 1917 and attended 
by a total of nearly 2,000 missionaries. The general key- 
note that underlies the resolutions adopted is "that Chi- 
nese Moslems are more accessible to Christian work and 
workers than their coreligionists in any other land, and 
yet that they have been almost wholly neglected." 

6. MOHAMMEDANISM IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH 
AFRICA 

Central Africa is along the present-day frontier and 
line of advance of Islam. 

Owing to the presence on the east coast about Mom- 
basa, past Dar-es-Salaam and on further south, of Arabian 
and other traders, practically all of them Mohammedans, 
Islam has for decades been fairly strong there and inland 
to the eastern shores of most of the great lakes, Victoria 
Nyanza, Tanganyika, Nyasa, and the rest. 



THE WAR AND MOSLEM LANDS 171 

Whatever may have been the hope or purpose of any 
of the Mohammedans to gain poHtical control or advan- 
tage for any Islamic ruler, the remoteness of this terri- 
tory from a Mohammedan state and the firm establishing 
of European control have prevented any aggressive 
political propaganda. 

Germany had prepared the way for the calling of a 
Jihad in the war she was preparing for and hoped that 
all Mohammedans in East Africa would join against 
Great Britain in the war. There was total failure of the 
call when it did come. Mohammedan troops on each side 
fought other Mohammedans in the campaigns in East 
Africa as elsewhere in the war. 

Chaplains and missionaries who had opportunity to 
observe the native troops in East Africa and in Kamerun 
testify to the very great activity and the success in making 
converts, of the Mohammedan troops in both campaigns. 
Mohammedan propaganda is not a matter of Sunday or 
other holy-day activity and is not centered in a school, 
mosque, or any other building. The Mohammedan's reli- 
gion affects his entire, everyday life, and the abundant 
opportunities of daily contact with others are fully used 
by the individual Mohammedan to propagate his faith. 

These observers bear strong testimony to the zeal and 
aggression of these propagandists in camp, on the march, 
and in every place and circumstance. They seemed will- 
ing and ready to go to almost any trouble to make con- 
verts, by distribution of tracts, by explanation of their 
habits, their prayers, and by exposition of the teachings 
and descriptions of the future promised by Islam. The 
Belgian Congo tribes will be affected by this, inasmuch 
as native troops and porters, or carriers, recruited from 
those tribes were brought into contact with these smart, 
abler, and honored troops in the East African campaign. 
The number of converts or natives impressed cannot be 
given with any accuracy, but probably it was between ten 
and twenty thousand. These were not a solid group of 



172 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

population, but representatives recruited from the midst 
of hundreds of thousands of raw pagans. 

Christianity as a counter-propaganda in these cam- 
paigns was conspicuous by its absence, except in a few 
centers of miHtary operation where the Y. M. C. A. had 
huts, and except for the work of a few individuals. None 
of the informants of the writer could tell of any Chris- 
tian evangelism being carried on among the troops gen- 
erally by whites or natives. Certainly the Mohammedans 
are a rebuke to us in this respect. 

Several things about the Mohammedan give him an 
impressive and winning attitude before raw pagans : the 
air of superiority to non-Moslems which he assumes ; the 
note of positiveness with which he speaks of his religion; 
his evident devotedness to the observance of his religion 
in regular prayer, in the things he does not eat, and in 
matters of dress ; and the greater material prosperity he 
almost invariably enjoys above the other people. The 
conditions of a pagan's life which make him particularly 
susceptible to Mohammedan propaganda are that he lives 
in a realm of uncertainty and acknowledged ignorance 
regarding the spirit world; he is naturally greatly im- 
pressed by evidence of power and superiority in another ; 
and he has but few possessions but is covetous for more, 
and hopes the new faith will aid him in this respect. 

When it comes to the African's accepting the Moham- 
medan faith he finds that it requires no change of heart ; 
that almost no practices dear to his heart need be given 
up, except alcohol in some cases ; that polygamy and con- 
cubinage are confirmed to him ; that the morality of aid 
to friends but opportunities to despoil outsiders is prac- 
tically what he has been used to ; and that a future most 
attractive to the unregenerate heart is promised him. 

Now that the war is over, there is every reason to 
expect a continuation of aggressive propaganda by the 
Mohammedans, carried now in the paths of trade. Ad- 
vance scouts have already appeared along the upper 



THE WAR AND MOSLEM LANDS 173 

Congo River. The warning voiced in these past years of 
an aggressive advance of Islam pushing down into Cen- 
tral Africa is seen today to have been timely. Christian- 
ity should completely occupy all Central Africa at once 
with schools, hospitals, and evangelism, and see that the 
trade of the country is in the hands of Christians, or at 
least of non-Moslems, else a decade hence it will find the 
task increased in difficulty many fold. 

In South Africa the Mohammedans number only some 
45,000 and have come from different countries, the ma- 
jority probably from Malaysia. This diversity of origin 
militates against a close union and a strong group-con- 
sciousness on the part of the Mohammedans of this sec- 
tion. Little or nothing of a nationalist tendency has been 
observed among them. 

They are not active propagandists among the native 
peoples of South Africa, but are constantly gaining con- 
verts, occasionally from among the whites but principally 
from the colored peoples in the centers of population 
throughout the subcontinent, notably Cape Town, Johan- 
nesburg, and the East Coast ports. The conditions aris- 
ing from the war seem to have made little difference in 
their activities. While in South Africa it might be said 
that there is as yet only a scattering of Mohammedans, 
their presence, aggression, and menace need to be taken 
seriously into account. A very wise, sympathetic, and 
positive Christian approach should be made to them. 



CHAPTER XIII 

THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK IN LATIN 

AMERICA IN THE LIGHT OF 

THE WAR 

While Latin America saw no fighting and sent no 
organized troops to the front, yet she was very deeply 
affected by the war. That effect was felt even more 
promptly than in the United States, because of the very 
close economic and spiritual relations which the Latin 
American countries have always maintained with Europe. 

I. Economic Changes 

Economic changes were the first to be felt after the 
war began. Latin America, with the exception of Mex- 
ico, Cuba, and Porto Rico and parts of Central America, 
had largely depended upon European capital for its de- 
velopment. England had invested in Argentina alone 
some £500,000,000. Railroads, port works^ street rail- 
ways, mines, telephones, and extensive land projects were 
owned by Europeans. Latin America had been selling 
her enormous resources to the foreigner and living in ease 
on the proceeds, with no thought that in this modern 
world of science and commerce and wealth such condi- 
tions could ever change. 

When the European war commenced, this order of 
things was suddenly altered. Countries which were ac- 
customed not only to borrow extra funds but to receive 
money for their raw materials from the foreigner found 
both processes stopped, because the European kept both 
his capital and his ships at home. For the same reason 



THE WAR AND LATIN AMERICA 175 

that foreign money was unavailable, foreign goods and 
foreign labor were unobtainable. 

In an endeavor to extricate herself from this terrible 
situation, Latin America did two things which are mak- 
ing a profound and permanent change in her life. The 
first was to turn to the United States for aid. This Gov- 
ernment, answering such an appeal, called the first Pan- 
American Financial Conference, which met in Washing- 
ton in May, 1915. The ministers of finance and promi- 
nent bankers of practically every one of the twenty 
southern countries, as well as the leading financiers of 
the United States, attended the conference. There was 
established the International High Commission, a com- 
posite body with official representatives from each Ameri- 
can republic, dealing with a wide range of financial and 
commercial matters. 

At the beginning of the war there was not one North 
American bank operating in South America and not a 
North American steamship line maintaining passenger 
service between the two continents. Today there are 
twenty-two banks having regularly established branches 
there. Several North American passenger lines are al- 
ready established and before this is in print this number 
will be substantially increased. The trip from New York 
to Valparaiso before the war generally required five 
weeks. Now big passenger steamers make the trip 
through the Panama Canal in eighteen days. The trip 
from New York to Rio de Janeiro on the fastest boats 
has required seventeen days and to Buenos Aires twenty- 
three days. The United States Shipping Board has an- 
nounced three fast steamers soon to be put into service 
which will make the trip to these cities in ten and four- 
teen days r.espectively. One-third of all the tonnage ac- 
quired by the Shipping Board is to be assigned to Latin 
American trade. 

The total value of the trade conducted between the 
United States and the twenty other American republics 



176 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

for the fiscal year of 1917-18 showed the enormous in- 
crease of nearly $1,000,000,000 over the 1913-14 figures. 
In other words, the United States' exports to, and imports 
from, Latin America grew from $747,000,000 four years 
ago to $1,743,000,000 for 1917-18. The official records 
tell the story that nothing equal to this trade expansion 
has heretofore been known in the history of the world. 

Latin America, besides endeavoring to arrange for new 
credits and supplies in the United States, did a second 
thing which is destined to have a very large effect on all 
her life. She began to make a most determined effort 
to develop her own resources and to manufacture her 
own goods. 

This movement was most notable in Brazil, the one big 
country in South America that actually declared war. 
The Federal Government took up systematically the 
whole question of increasing agricultural products and 
cattle raising and the manufacturing of goods formerly 
imported. Previously her export had been largely coffee, 
with the proceeds of which she had bought many staples 
which could easily have been raised at home. In the new 
effort toward development a North American missionary 
was called upon to help in planning a com exhibit like 
those held in the United States, and several thousand 
Japanese colonists were brought in to teach the people to 
grow rice cheaply. The methods of producing rubber are 
being reformed. The coal mines in the south are being 
developed. An official campaign around the world is 
being made to promote the sale of Brazilian tea, mate. 
Manufacturing has grown to an astounding extent and 
foreign-made clothing is being almost replaced by native 
products. 

The demand from the warring nations for beef and 
wheat, and the high prices paid, caused a great increase in 
their production. Argentina has now become the leader 
of the world in the exportation of beef, surpassing the 
United States and Australia. She has also come to oc- 



THE WAR AND LATIN AMERICA 177 

cupy first place in the export of wool and third place in 
the export of wheat. She has begun to use native 
petroleum and firewood, to search for her own coal de- 
posits, and to exploit her own forests, since denied these 
necessities by Europe. 

Chile has learned her lesson as did Brazil — not to de- 
pend entirely on one product for her national commercial 
existence. Heretofore about eighty-five per cent of her 
national revenue had been derived from an export tax on 
nitrate, but during the war taxation was distributed in a 
more scientific way, including a land tax which Chile had 
never had before. She has greatly increased the number 
of her factories and now gets practically all of her coal 
from her own mines. Peru also has made a splendid 
endeavor to supply her own needs. She has stimulated 
greatly her production of sugar and cotton, the high price 
of these articles during the war having brought great 
prosperity to producers of these articles. 

The smaller countries in the Caribbean have been less 
able to develop their own resources and as a rule have 
suffered greatly economically. Cuba is a marked excep- 
tion. That country's foreign commerce has been multi- 
plied by three during the war, on account of her giving 
herself almost entirely, backed by American capital, to 
the production of sugar. Cuba now produces about one- 
quarter of the world's supply of sugar. Her foreign 
commerce in 1918 amounted to $718,000,000, almost 
equal to that of China. 

A third change in economic conditions during the 
war has been the development of the labor movement. 
Labor in these countries in the past has had little oppor- 
tunity to assert itself. The formation of the Pan-Ameri- 
can Federation of Labor in 1918, which is fostered by 
the American Federation of Labor, has served to organ- 
ize labor in several Latin American countries. Two Pan- 
American conferences on labor have been held, resulting 
in an understanding between workmen of different coun- 



178 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

tries and helping them to study more closely the 
economic, social, and political improvement of the labor- 
ing classes. The Mexican-American division has worked 
strenuously against intervention in Mexico and undoubt- 
edly has had a large effect. Labor disturbances have oc- 
curred all over Latin America during the last two years. 
Just how far these have been the results of the efforts 
of foreign agitators and how far due to the growing 
spirit of independence among the workers themselves, 
it is difficult to say. Socialistic and labor representatives 
are found exercising large influence at the present time 
in the national congresses of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, 
Brazil, Porto Rico, Mexico, and Cuba. 

Finally, in discussing economic changes in Latin 
America during the war, there must be mentioned the 
attention commanded from the rest of the world by these 
nations because of their enormous resources. Careful 
students are now regarding Latin America as the most 
promising field for furnishing the three great demands of 
the world today: food, room for overcrowded popula- 
tions, and a market for surplus goods and capital. Begin- 
ning at the Rio Grande and stretching down through 
Mexico, Central America, and through the rich fields 
of South America to the Straits of Magellan, is the larg- 
est area of undeveloped fertile land in the world. The 
entire population of the globe could find a place here and 
be only one-third as crowded as Porto Rico. Argentina, 
far more capable than New York of sustaining a dense 
population, would have 200,000,000 people instead of her 
present 8,000,000, if it were as densely populated as that 
state. This is why capitalists, manufacturers, steamship 
directors, food economists, and political leaders in North 
America, Europe, and even Japan, are so intently fixing 
their attention on these fallow lands. 

As to the activities of the United States for developing 
closer contacts with Latin America, reference has already 
been made to the Pan-American Financial Congress and 



THE WAR AND LATIN AMERICA 179 

the activities growing out of it, as also to the Pan-Ameri- 
can Federation of Labor. The first Pan-American Scien- 
tific Congress held in Washington in 1916 and the move- 
ments growing out of it did much to remove the com- 
plaint of the Latin Americans that the United States was 
interested in them chiefly from the commercial side, fail- 
ing to appreciate their contribution to science, literature, 
and art. Besides the continual activities of the Pan- 
American Union, with headquarters in Washington, there 
have been developed a large number of societies and in- 
numerable publications for the promotion of various 
phases of inter-American relations. Universities and col- 
leges in the United States have organized special courses 
in the languages and history of Latin America and have 
made the attendance of Latin American students much 
easier. Latin America has come to be an increasingly 
popular subject to discuss with commercial organizations 
and Chautauqua audiences. Banks, factories, steamship 
companies, and engineers have made elaborate plans to 
extend trade toward the south. It may be said that for 
the first time in its history the United States is awake 
to the need of developing close relations with her south- 
em neighbors. 

II. Political Changes 

The technical attitude of the Latin American countries 
in the World War was as follows : 

Eight of the twenty nations actually declared war on 
Germany: Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, 
Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Five other Latin 
American states broke ofif diplomatic relations with Ger- 
many: namely, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Ecua- 
dor, Peru, and Uruguay. Salvador declared herself in 
favor of benevolent neutrality toward the United States, 
which permitted the use of her ports and territorial 
waters by the warships of the United States and the 
Allies. The six remaining neutral nations — Argentina, 



180 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, and Venezuela— 
either by the statements of the executives or by resolu- 
tions passed by their congresses, or again by the pro-Ally 
tone of the majority of their leading newspapers and 
finally by the utterances of their most representative 
statesmen, also expressed themselves in favor of Pan- 
American solidarity. 

The outstanding change in the political life of Latin 
America brought about by the war was its new attitude 
of friendliness toward the United States. It is not neces- 
sary here to refer to the well-known suspicion of the 
United States which has existed in all Latin American 
countries for years and has greatly limited the work of 
our missionaries. This prejudice and the change of senti- 
ment are well described in the following editorial pub- 
lished in a leading Buenos Aires daily on July 4, 1917 : 

"The circumstances in which we find ourselves today 
on this anniversary of the North American nation serve 
to define a double principle of Americanism and democ- 
racy. This celebration in other years has been an occa- 
sion for rejoicing only for the United States. She could, 
with patriotic joy, stop in her march and contemplate 
with satisfaction the road traveled since the days of that 
memorable declaration. Other people joined the celebra- 
tion with a cordiality more official and diplomatic than 
real. 

"Today all is different. The United States, by the 
power of that great republican virtue which is the sup- 
porter of the right, is for the whole world not only a 
nation engaged in a knightly war, but an apostle in action. 
Some four years ago the Latin author, Ruben Dario, was 
able to say, led astray by superficial observation, that the 
United States, which had everything, lacked but one 
thing — God. 

"Today this cannot be said, for the crusade of the 
United States and the serene and eloquent words of 
Wilson have a religious character, now that they intimate 
the abandonment and disregard of material interests in 
the face of the defense of the ideal." 

Dr. Ernesto Quesada, of Argentina, speaking of the 



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need of all America's standing together, said: "Never 
more than at the present moment, while Europe is in the 
great conflict of nations, has America been confronted 
with a more vital necessity to stand together." Sefior 
Ignacio Calderon, of Bolivia, puts it this way : "Freedom 
is a gift that is given only to nations who know how and 
are ready to defend it. America is destined to lead the 
world. Let us work together for the principle of right 
and justice, of liberty and happiness." Dr. Eduardo J. 
Pinto, of Costa Rica, was even more emphatic : "It would 
seem," he said, "that by a natural reflex action Ameri- 
cans, having witnessed the result of upheaval and conflict 
across the Atlantic, have banded together in order that 
the bonds of their security and peace may be strengthened 
and assured." 

The great increase in the number of students coming 
from Latin America to the United States is an indication 
of this new spirit of confidence. Only recently the Gov- 
ernment of Brazil sent to this country twenty-seven 
graduate students, who are to take two-year courses in 
agriculture, forestry, sanitation, and engineering. It is 
probable that from that country alone a hundred students 
will come this year, all financed by their Government. 

III. Spiritual Changes 

The outstanding spiritual change brought about by the 
war is an increased open-mindedness. The people of 
Latin America are doing more fundamental thinking than 
ever before in their history. They have hitherto been 
ruled more by sentiment than reason. They have rested 
on the glorious past of the Latin race, have magnified 
the differences between Latin Catholics and Anglo-Saxon 
Protestants, and have minimized the great economic and 
moral bases of American solidarity. They had ceased to 
regard religion as a real factor in modern life. But the 
World War, with its rude shock to their economic prog- 
ress and to many of their philosophic theories, supposedly 



183 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

beyond attack, compelled them to reexamine their indi- 
vidual and national relationships and to restate their 
theories. The spirit of inquiry, the willingness to listen, 
the new readiness to seek after God, if perchance they 
might find Him, impress one profoundly as traveling in 
those countries he talks with men of every status from 
university professors to laboring men. 

Not since the struggle for independence a century ago 
has all Latin America been so stirred with the need of 
decision on a moral question as during the war. Some 
of the most dramatic scenes ever enacted in her history 
took place in the legislative halls and public assemblies 
when the questions concerning the nation's attitude 
toward the war were debated. In Peru, Dr. Mariano H. 
Cornejo, in a brilliant address before Congress, Septem- 
ber 7, 1917, thus stated the moral issues involved : 

"Gentlemen, I do not exaggerate when I say that never 
has Peru in her past history, never will she have in the 
future, a greater problem than to decide her attitude 
toward the world conflict, whose issues illumine the hu- 
man conscience, bringing to judgment all religious and 
scientific dogmas, all moral values, all the Utopias that 
man has conceived through the centuries. In the uni- 
verse, reality consists not simply in the material which 
is temporal. Reality also consists in the intangible light. 
He does not know reality who does not take into account 

the unseen energy The peoples of America are 

called upon to enlist themselves on the side of the Ideal. 
How unfortunate that at this time the ideal is so con- 
founded with personal interest !" 

Dr. Leopoldo Lugones, one of the outstanding men of 
Argentina, in arguing for a visit of the United States fleet 
to Buenos Aires, said : 

"In Argentina neutrality is a desertion. Here, as in the 
entire world, there are two powers that compete with one 
another — despotism and liberty. And the object of such 
a gigantic struggle is the right to live with honor, without 
which even the life of a dog is too sad. This has received 
since the beginning of the war a sublime ratification. 



THE WAR AND LATIN AMERICA 183 

Belgium, only a little atom in relation to colossal Ger- 
many, preferred her honor to her life. She gained with 
this her place of equality among the great. Did I say 
equality ? Historical grandeur has nothing that goes be- 
yond it !" 

The following are extracts from an address delivered 
in the Brazilian Senate on Armistice Day by the well- 
known Brazilian statesman. Dr. Ruy Barbosa, who was 
called from his home to address the Senate upon the re- 
ceipt of the news of peace : 

"I desire to lift up my heart in praise to God for not 
having permitted me to deceive myself, when, in the con- 
ference at Buenos Aires, I counseled our nation, I coun- 
seled the other Latin American republics, I counseled the 
great Republic of the North, I counseled all America, I 
counseled all the neutral countries of the world, to break 
this unbearable neutrality between crime and right, be- 
tween falsehood and truth, between infamy and justice. 
I desire only to say : 'Glory to God in the highest, peace 
on earth among men of good will,' whose faith, whose 
perseverance, whose heroism, took this cause upon their 
shoulders and bore it to the final victory of this hour. 

"However, gentlemen, there is still another lesson of 
the war just ended, and we must not forget to make use 
of it for ourselves, for the salvation of our own country. 
The world moves toward other laws, toward other goals, 
toward a future of illimitable extent. Will it be possible 
for Brazil, in the midst of all these revolutions and up- 
heavals, not to suffer its need of change in the character 
of its politics, its institutions, the procedures of its states- 
men ? No, gentlemen, we must be taught by these events, 
and we ought to realize that our republic must accom- 
modate herself to the new modes of thought, that our 
government must set its people a different example from 
the usual one, or days perhaps tempestuous will be in 
store for us." 

Many indications like the above show a new feeling 
among the peoples. They have been forced to face many 
decisions that involved an analysis of moral purposes. 
They have lived during the past rather in isolation, be- 
lieving that science had solved their problems for them, 



184 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

that nature had given them all that could be desired of 
riches and prosperity, and that religion had been practi- 
cally eliminated. But they were suddenly confronted 
with the necessity of deciding which side they would take 
in a world struggle, realizing that they were being 
watched by the whole world as they made this decision. 
They were necessarily compelled to think of other things 
besides the economic, in which they had trusted almost 
entirely in the past. 

These conditions also made them take life more seri- 
ously. Stopped from overborrowing, both in public and 
in private, they were compelled to think of saving money, 
food, and materials. The stories of the sacrifices of the 
peoples of Europe had large effect. Whether their par- 
ticular nation declared war or not, they were compelled 
to face up to the meaning of war. The organization of 
the work of such enterprises as the Red Cross, carried 
on at first by the British and French, later on by Ameri- 
cans, and still later on joined in by the nationals of the 
various countries themselves, had a splendid effect in 
awaking the people to the needs of sacrifice and service. 
Even the investment in Liberty Bonds has had a good 
effect in bringing about these closer relations and in em- 
phasizing the lessons of thrift and the responsibility of 
different peoples to help one another. The campaigns for 
the various war funds for the Allies were carried on in 
practically every Latin American country and yielded 
large results. Even little Santo Domingo gave some $85,- 
000 in one campaign to the Red Cross. The Y. M. C. A. 
was able to raise large sums of money for its buildings 
in Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro, when the war was 
at its height. Thus a new spirit of giving was developed 
by the war. This new spirit will be favorable to a large 
support of missionary projects which are for the develop- 
ment of the community. 

It is impressive to note the large number of individuals 
and organizations that are now beginning efforts to serve 



THE WAR AND LATIN AMERICA 185 

the people. The Temperance Society of Peru, which is 
composed of some of the leading men of the country, is 
doing a remarkable work. In Chile and Uruguay there 
are a large number of societies promoting educational and 
charitable work, which are quite independent of the Gov- 
ernment. In Argentina there are large groups — ranging 
in their activities from discussions in university halls to 
socialistic meetings among workmen on the street corners 
— which indicate spiritual hunger and initiative. The 
Child Welfare Congress is an illustration of this new 
spirit. The second Congress, held in June, 1919, in Mon- 
tevideo, was an outstanding success and denotes a new 
day for the neglected child in South America. 

In regard to interest directly in religion, there are many 
evidences that the war has increased it, though some 
correspondents deny this. There is no question but that 
there are signs of a marked interest recently displayed 
in Protestant teachings. In Chile, one of the richest men 
of Santiago recently came at night to the young pastor of 
a Methodist Church, and cried out for help in his spiritual 
struggle. The World War and the breaking up of all 
that seemed permanent in civilization had so upset him 
that he felt he could not stand it longer. After the funeral 
service of a prominent citizen, held in one of the evangeli- 
cal churches in Buenos Aires, a university professor told 
the minister that if he would make an effort to let the 
intellectual classes know what the Evangelical Church was 
doing he felt sure that there would be found a prompt 
response to his efforts, there being now a great demand 
for new light on spiritual questions. In the same city a 
professor in the university recently gave a series of lec- 
tures on Emerson and the significance of the Unitarian 
and Puritan movements in New England. These lectures 
made a pronounced impression. Many things that Protes- 
tant missionaries would like to have said this university 
professor was telling the young men of Argentina. He 
has been contemplating a congress of religions that would 



186 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

face the problem of establishing standards of morality 
and service in Argentinian life. 

Most significant was the remark of another Argen- 
tinian gentleman : "I have lost my enthusiasm for France. 
If the United States does not save the world it will not 
be saved." Another said : "The educated classes are hun- 
gry for spiritual food. They are ready for your message, 
if you will only arrange to present it to them in an attrac- 
tive way." 

Leaders in various countries also realize more deeply 
the necessity of practical education for their children and 
so impressed are they by the work of the mission schools 
that they are anxious to have the number increased. The 
president of Paraguay, in discussing this question with 
workers who recently went to Asuncion to plan for a new 
mission, was eager to cooperate and said that there were 
public lands which could be given to them for an agri- 
cultural school, and an experiment station, already be- 
gun, which could be turned over, equipment and all. A 
most remarkable proposition was made to the Southern 
Presbyterian mission by the Brazilian Government, which 
offered it the free use of a well-equipped agricultural 
school, with some 10,000 acres of land, agreeing to back 
the school for a period of fifty years if the mission would 
provide the leaders in the teaching force. Moreover, the 
management was to have carte blanche in the matter of 
religious instruction. The Government of Brazil has also 
selected a former teacher in one of the mission schools 
to head a modern school of domestic science and paid her 
expenses to this country to secure seven other young 
women teachers, specifying that they, like herself, should 
have the missionary spirit. 

The Roman Catholic Church has undoubtedly lost pres- 
tige in Latin America because of the general recognition 
that the Roman hierarchy in practically all of these coun- 
tries, as well as in Europe, favored Germany. The fol- 
lowing words of Sefior Vildosola, editor of El Mercurio 



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of Santiago, are generally applicable to other Latin 
American countries : 

"Perhaps the most of those who in Chile are still 
friendly to the German cause are to be found among the 
clergy and the militant Catholics, although indeed they 
are not the more cultured and better informed. At the 
beginning of the war many members of the Chilean clergy 
suffered the same perturbation of judgment as that in 
which the Spanish clergy still remains ; they believed that 
in this war the Germanic empire was an instrument of 
Providence to chastise France for having expelled the 
religious orders." 

To sum up, the Latin American nations have ceased to 
be children. Formerly they have been looked after by 
outside nations, their finances have been provided for 
them, their national resources exploited, their intellectual 
life dominated. The war has changed all of this. Just 
as when a child who has been protected by others comes 
to be thrown on his own resources, and is forced to make 
his own choices, so these young nations are beginning to 
face life with new seriousness and new responsibilities. 
As with all young people this may not be an unmixed 
good. They will yield to many temptations unless they 
have the strongest help from their elder friends. It is 
not only a fight for supremacy in the world of commerce 
that we shall see taking place in Latin America, but a 
fight for supremacy in the world of culture and morals. 

The new opportunity for Christian service is well 
described by a word just received from a man who is 
constantly traveling in South America, visiting especially 
the universities there. 

"With the present spiritual unrest that signifies a deep 
longing for something morally and spiritually better, and 
with the United States standing today beside France in 
the affections of the South American peoples, one longs 
to see every North American agency that can make a 
genuine contribution to the moral and spiritual progress 
of South America give itself whole-heartedly to this op- 



188 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

portunity. No such time has existed since the days fol- 
lowing the gaining of their political independence." 

IV. Some Dangers Growing out of the World War 
One of the first dangers to world peace to be found in 
Latin America would seem to be that involved in the 
trade war to which reference has already been made. 
This trade war will be keenest between England, the 
United States, Germany, and Japan. It is not pleasant to 
refer to the bitter feeling often generated by trade rivalry 
between Americans and Englishmen in Latin America. 
Observers who live in South America, however, realize 
the keenness of this rivalry. Many beheve that if Eng- 
land and the United States should ever be threatened with 
war with one another it would come through their com- 
mercial rivalries in Latin America. Christian mission- 
aries from these countries could do a great deal to do 
away with the evil effects of such rivalry, and it is un- 
questionably one of the problems that they ought to face. 
Since, owing to world conditions, it is the investors of 
the United States who are most free to extend their 
holdings and to make new investments in these countries 
of the South, there is danger of the domination of Ameri- 
can financial interests in the affairs of these nations. 
The Latin American countries have always been sfb- 
jected to foreign domination in matters of this sort, a 
fact which was forcefully pointed out by President Wil- 
son in his Mobile address, when, in speaking of Latin 
America, he said: 

"The foreign interests are apt to dominate their do- 
mestic affairs, a condition of affairs always dangerous 

and likely to become intolerable They have had 

harder bargains driven with them in the matter of loans 
than any other peoples of the world. Interest has been 
exacted of them that was not exacted of anybody else, 
because the risk was said to be greater, and thus securi- 
ties were taken that destroyed the risk — an admirable 
arrangement for those who were forcing the terms. I 
rejoice in nothing so much as in the prospect thsst they 



THE WAR AND LATIN AMERICA 189 

will now be emancipated from these conditions, and we 
ought to be the first to take part in assisting in that eman- 
cipation." 

Already there have been upon the part of our investors 
several instances of successful interference in Latin 
American affairs, an outstanding illustration of which 
was the recent revolution in Costa Rica, where a progres- 
sive president was ousted largely through the influence 
of certain American financial interests who resented his 
refusal to grant concessions and special privileges to 
them. Another instance is the United States Senate's 
recent holding up of the treaty with Colombia because 
of protest from certain oil interests, who object to the 
nationalization of Colombia's oil lands. This treaty has 
already been delayed for some three years. Its approval 
is most necessary if we are to clear away the resentment 
of Latin America caused by the taking of Panama. In 
Cuba, American investors control almost entirely the 
economic life, through their investments in sugar. If 
Cuba is not to become the American Ireland there must 
be given careful consideration to the obligation of the 
American people for the development of her spiritual 
and educational life. 

Certain financial interests have united in the organiza- 
tion of a propaganda bureau to discredit the present 
Mexican Government in the United States. This organi- 
zation may claim that it is not in favor of armed interven- 
tion, which could only mean a w^ar of invasion, but the 
eflFect of its propaganda is to persuade the American peo- 
ple that it is their Christian duty to take charge of the 
affairs of Mexico. A superficial view makes the average 
man, interested in "a moral clean-up," compare Mexico 
with Cuba and the Philippines, forgetting the vast diflFer- 
ences, not only in the size of the countries, but in the de- 
velopment of their nationality, and, above all, the fact 
that Mexico is against our intervening, whereas the Cu- 
bans welcomed it very much, since they needed help in 



190 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

their struggle for independence. The PhiHppines were 
composed of many separate peoples, speaking different 
languages, who have never developed a real national life 
or spirit. There rests upon the missionary organizations 
a responsibility, not only to make facts concerning inter- 
national relations known, when they possess such facts, 
but also to take the part of these weak peoples when the 
strong materialistic and militaristic forces are united 
against them. If we fail to do this in our home land, 
where because of our present outstanding power we have 
much to do with deciding their fate, then they will have 
little confidence in our protestations of friendship when 
we go to serve them in their own lands. 

A prominent Protestant minister in Mexico has said 
the following about what intervention would mean for 
missionary work: 

"Intervention in Mexico by the United States would 
mean the destruction of all American mission work. For 
many years the Protestant ministers in Mexico have been 
accused of being bought with Yankee gold. We have con- 
tinued in the employ of American mission boards, how- 
ever, because we believed they were representative of the 
best Christian spirit and were trying to give to Mexico 
the pure Gospel of Christ — our country's greatest need. 
When the Revolution began the Protestant churches 
threw themselves into it almost unanimously, because 
they believed that its program represented what they had 
been preaching through the years, and that the triumph 
of the Revolution meant the triumph of the Gospel. 
Many Protestant preachers are now prominent in the 
Mexican Government and the liberal element has come 
to have a new respect for and interest in Evangelical 
Christianity. The people have seen that the Protestants 
were in favor of the Revolution and were willing to fight 
for it. Never before has there been in Mexico such 

eagerness to hear the Gospel Conditions here 

are improving all the time. We are permitted to travel 
in all parts of the country to do our work. Inter- 
vention on the part of the American people would set 
back Christian work in Mexico a hundred years. It is 
impossible for the people of the United States to realize 



THE WAR AND LATIN AMERICA 191 

how deep-seated would be the feeling against them. 
While Americans might say they were doing this for 
the good of Mexico, Mexicans would never admit it. 
They believe they have a right to work out their own 
salvation. Now that the American mission boards have 
planned to give them spiritual help in larger measure and 
the opportunities for preaching the Gospel are so great, 
it would be an immeasurable crime for the American peo- 
ple to make war on Mexico." 

The third danger growing out of the war is the fear 
of some that the United States will use her military 
power developed in the World War for imperialistic pur- 
poses in Latin America. A former president of Colom- 
bia said recently in a public address : "We glory in the 
wonderful idealistic program of the United States as 
carried out in the World War. We admire all of her 
accomplishments. We pay tribute to her wonderful 
organization and the unselfishness with which she has 
thrown herself into the fight for democracy which is a 
fight for all of America. Yet we cannot fail to realize 
that the United States is building up a powerful war 
machine which might very easily be turned upon her 
weaker neighbors to the South." Such feelings are in- 
tensified by the talk so prevalent at the present time con- 
cerning intervention in Mexico. Such intervention would 
not only profoundly aflfect all mission work of the United 
States in that country but cost us the friendship of all 
Latin America. The domination of the United States in 
the affairs of Cuba, Santo Domingo, Haiti, Nicaragua, 
and Panama lends much weight to such words as those 
just quoted and cannot help but concern the missionary 
worker. 

Whatever may be said in justification of our taking 
over Santo Domingo and ruling it for these three years 
and a half by martial law — where all that newspapers 
print must be submitted to the American military authori- 
ties and no criticism of such authorities is allowed ; where 
no public meetings to discuss political affairs are per- 



192 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

mitted ; and where there is practically no way by which the 
civil population can come into contact with, and make its 
wants known, to the American military authorities — cer- 
tainly such conditions cannot exist permanently and the 
missionary forces of the United States should take an 
interest in having them changed. The missionary forces 
have done practically nothing in either Santo Domingo 
or Haiti. Before the soldiers come out the missionaries 
must go in. Their program must be inclusive enough to 
develop the whole life of the people so that they may be 
prepared for peace and order in doing their part of the 
world's work. The influence of the United States is 
stronger in the Caribbean district than anywhere else. 
Yet it is a notable fact that our missionary effort, with 
the exception of that in Cuba and Porto Rico, amounts 
to less in that area than in any other part of Latin Amer- 
ica. The neglect of Central America, Santo Domingo, 
Haiti, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador from the mis- 
sionary standpoint is appalling. Yet it is in this area 
that our political responsibilities are the largest. The 
missionary forces must do their part in helping to solve 
these inter-American relationships. In fact there is no 
more important thing for North American missionary 
development in the South than an honest carrying out 
toward the small nations in America of the doctrine we 
have proclaimed in entering the World War. Nothing 
will more surely deaden our spiritual influence than the 
prevalence of the spirit described by President Lowell, 
of Harvard University, as follows : 

"Some Americans, while professing a faith in the right 
of all peoples to independence and self-government, are 
really imperialists at heart. They believe in the right 
and manifest destiny of the United States to expand by 
overrunning its weaker neighbors. They appeal to a 
spirit of patriotism that sees no object, holds no ideals, 
and acknowledges no rights or duties, but the national 
welfare and aggrandizement. In the name of that prin- 
ciple Germany sinned and fell. The ideas of these Ameri- 



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can imperialists are less grandiose, but at bottom they 
differ little from hers. It would be a calamity if we 
should have helped to overcome Germany only to be con- 
quered by her theories and her errors. 

"According to that view Central and South America 
are a game preserve, from which poachers are excluded, 
but where the proprietor may hunt as he pleases. Natu- 
rally the proprietor is anxious not only to keep away the 
poachers but to oppose game laws that would interfere 
with his own sport. With their professed principles about 
protecting the integrity and independence of small coun- 
tries, the nations that have drawn up the Covenant of 
Paris can hardly consent to a claim of this kind. Nor 
ought we to demand it. A suspicion that this is the real 
meaning of the Monroe Doctrine is the specter that has 
prevented the great South American states from accept- 
ing the doctrine. It has been the chief obstacle to mutual 
confidence and cordial relations with them, and the sooner 
it is definitely rejected the better." 

The protest of Latin American statesmen against the 
Monroe Doctrine is easily understood when we realize 
that it is the kind of interpretation of the Monroe Doc- 
trine to which President Lowell refers that is most gen- 
erally understood in Latin America. Latin American 
missionaries cannot ignore their duty toward this prob- 
lem of inter-American friendship, on which the peace 
of the continent and the world so greatly depends. 

A fourth danger is the new emphasis on militarism and 
materialism which, in spite of all that has been said con- 
cerning a new desire for spiritual life, has been felt by 
many Latin Americans. Many Latin American nations 
which have had practically no army or navy are now con- 
sidering it imperative to spend the larger part of their 
national income on militarism. 

The following is a summary of a reply to several ques- 
tions addressed to a prominent lawyer and educator in 
Chile: 

"First of all the war's lessons is that all nations and 
principally the small ones must be prepared for war on 
the Swiss model, so that every man and woman and fac- 



194 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

tory would be a factor in war. The school must be the 
first step in war preparation. Rights must be supported 
by force, as force has proved, once more, that it is the 
best defender of rights. Had it not been for their per- 
fect military organizations, Holland and Switzerland 
would have been invaded. If international wars come 
to an end, they are going to be replaced by internal wars 
headed by the working classes against capitalism, and 
mankind will suffer more by these than by the former." 

The danger of materialism is further illustrated by the 
following published words of a prominent Argentinian: 

"The uselessness of the exaggerated religious spirit of 
our times is revealed by its own inefficiency. What use 
has religion been in the present world conflict? .... 
Religion has not been able to avert the war. On the 
field of battle peoples are being massacred by those of 
their own belief, and they march hand in hand with those 

whom they believed to be heretics but yesterday 

But there must come out of it all, as a logical consequence 
of the struggle, the universal decadence of religious 
morality, and, with the strengthening of democracy, there 
will come the implantation of a human morality." 

V. A New Program for the Missionary Enter- 
prise 
Practically all correspondents in Latin America with 
whom we have been in touch express the belief that the 
missionary must enlarge his work into an effort to change 
society itself, and not simply the individual. The war has 
taught the very close relationships among all departments 
of life. Neither a man nor a nation can have one com- 
partment for his religion, another for his social life, and 
another for his political. The exposure of this fallacy 
so long existing in Latin America will be a great service 
for the missionary to render. It is of real concern to 
the Christian worker whether either the individual or the 
nation is on a sound economic basis, whether his political 
life is honest, whether the educational bases are correct, 
and whether international relations are healthy. Nothing 



THE WAR AND LATIN AMERICA 195 

that has to do with Hfe can be foreign to the man who 
is working for the elevation of the people. 

There must be renewed vigor in pointing out the fal- 
sity of the materiaHstic and economic theories of life. 
Education with a religious background must be given 
increased attention. The missionary must find new 
methods of impressing upon the people the truth thai 
strong nationality can be developed only through love 
and service and sacrifice. He must find new ways of 
identifying himself with the social and philanthropic or- 
ganizations that are seeking outside of the Church to do 
the same things that he is seeking to do in the Church. 
He must realize that there are many honest, spiritually 
minded people outside of the Church who are doing 
much for the Kingdom. He must seek fellowship with 
these men and work shoulder to shoulder with them. In 
such work he will often find the opportunity to give the 
spiritual note which is the one thing lacking. Rightly 
to guide the rising spirit of nationalism, not to oppose it, 
will be one of the missionary's important tasks. 

The missionary will be able to enlarge this nationalism 
into internationalism by preaching a universal religion, 
pointing out that he comes to convert men, not to North 
American ideas nor North Am.erican language, but to 
Christ, the universal Saviour ; that Christianity needs the 
peculiar emphasis of the Latin American as well as the 
Anglo-Saxon, the Oriental, and all other nations, to make 
up its perfect whole. Dr. Warneck used to say that 
Americans read the great commission, "Go ye into all the 
world and teach the English language to every creature." 
This has been far too true of missionary work in Latin 
America. No one can deny that, as one missionary ex- 
presses it, many reforms and many great ideas have 
ridden into the country on the back of the English lan- 
guage; that there is a strong demand for the teaching 
of English which our mission schools can legitimately 
gratify; and that English literature will do much to in- 



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culcate moral ideals. But we shall never have our largest 
influence in Latin America as long as we remain foreign, 
preferring a foreign language and seeking to inculcate for- 
eign ideals. The objection most often heard about our mis- 
sion schools is that they are little parts of North America 
set down in Latin America. They teach the English lan- 
guage; they display the portraits of Washington and 
Lincoln rather than those of the national heroes; they 
inculcate the ideals of a foreign nation ; and they even call 
their institutions by foreign names which are unfamiliar 
and unpronounceable. 

To overcome this criticism it seems important that mis- 
sionaries increasingly do two things especially : First, read 
the national literature which discusses these problems. 
One who has not kept in touch with it is surprised to 
find how many of the larger problems which missionaries 
are facing are discussed in the Latin American press 
and in books appearing constantly these days. Great help 
will be received from a continued following of the na- 
tional mind as it appears in what people are reading. 
Second, form friendships with the leaders in national life. 
These men are surprisingly easy of access, and apprecia- 
tive of the opportunity to discuss their problems with the 
foreigner who shows an intelligent sympathy with them. 

If missionary work is to succeed, the leaders must be 
identified with the thinking people of the community and 
understand their national literature, their educational 
program, and all the other forces that go to make up 
the national mind. This will mean the expenditure of 
time, but the results will certainly be worthy of it. The 
missionary, with the enlargement of his service for the 
whole community, has now the most remarkable oppor- 
tunity ever presented in the history of Latin America. 



PART III 

MISSIONARY PRINCIPLES AND POLICIES* 
IN THE LIGHT OF THE WAR 



CHAPTER XIV 

THE EFFECT OF WAR ON MISSIONARY 
SPIRIT AND ACTIVITY^ 

We are witnessing in these days an unparalleled quick- 
ening of missionary activity. Individual denominations 
are inaugurating more effective prosecution of the mis- 
sionary enterprise. There is, further, a general marshal- 
ing of the forces of Protestantism in America in the 
Interchurch World Movement, growing largely out of 
the desire that with united front we may go forward in 
our great task of evangelizing the nations. So often do 
we hear these movements associated with the results of 
the war and in some part even attributed to it that we 
are led soberly to question whether it is but an accident 
that these new developments began during the war and 
are developing now so rapidly, or whether there is some 
vital connection between the two. It is such questions as 
these that have led us to review the history of missions 
in the light of the effects of war, in an attempt to correct 
any hasty impressions by the sobering facts of history. 

It should be understood, of course, at the very outset 
of this chapter, that nothing could be further from our 
thought than to assume that the net result of war is 
favorable to foreign missions. We see in war a great 
spiritual calamity, something that should be abolished 
and that will be abolished when nations proceed on truly 
Christian principles. There are, nevertheless, certain 



1 The present chapter is an historical consideration of what has 
happened after other wars. Various phases of missionary activ- 
ity in the light of the World War will be considered in subse- 
quent chapters. 



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by-products of war which may be used advantageously 
and of which we need to lay hold as partial compensations 
for its disasters. It is with these indirect and com- 
pensating aspects of war that we are here concerned as 
we consider the bearing of war on missionary activity. 
While this is an historical discussion, we shall perhaps 
be able more clearly to follow the development of the 
thought if we first enunciate certain principles which 
have come to light and then seek their illustration in 
particular periods of history. 

I. War and the Spread of Christianity 

In the first place, our study has led to a realization 
of the fact that the results of war in the breaking down 
of old national lines, while leading to a temporary dis- 
ruption of unity, have in the ultimate analysis proved 
the foundation of a new and larger unity, and that even 
when wars have seen as their immediate result the over- 
throw of a higher by a lower civilization, the higher ideals 
have by the conflict been brought into touch with the 
lower as might have been possible in no other way, and 
have finally been victorious. 

This result is strikingly illustrated in the very early 
history of the Church. There was too great a tempta- 
tion to "tarry at Jerusalem," and while certain bolder 
spirits like Paul strove from the first to make Christian- 
ity a universal religion, there was grave danger of its 
becoming a sect of Judaism. The war at Jerusalem, its 
fall in 70 A. D., and the consequent scattering of the 
Christians centered there, proved the salvation of the 
missionary aspect of Christianity. The disciples, dis- 
persed, went everywhere preaching the Word and a great 
crisis in the history of Christianity was safely passed. 

Another great chapter in the history of missions is the 
achievements of the fifth century. The Roman Empire 
had been conquered by Christianity, but again there was 
too little evidence of a desire to attempt greater con- 



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quests for Christ. There followed the period of bar- 
barian invasions and at the close of the fifth century the 
political map of Europe had been rewritten. The Eastern 
Empire was restricted to Thrace and Greece, with the 
Asiatic provinces and Egypt ; Italy itself and parts of the 
eastern shore of the Adriatic were held by the Ostrogoths, 
while Spain and a large part of the adjacent territory of 
France were in the possession of the Visigoths. The 
Burgundians occupied southeastern France, the Franks 
the northern portion and part of western Germany, and 
what is now Portugal was in the hands of the Suevi. 
The temporal power of Rome was gone, but during this 
period of confusion and strife there had been working 
among these barbarian tribes Ulfilas, "the Moses of the 
Goths," born about 311 A. D., who, largely through his 
own efforts, by 381, saw Athanaric, the great hostile king 
of the Visigoths, converted and practically the whole 
nation following in his footsteps. One by one the con- 
querors were conquered by the Christ and by the close 
of the fifth century each of these nations occupying the 
portions of the old empire had, at least nominally, em- 
braced Christianity. It was the result of a century and 
a half of missionary activity growing very largely out 
of the broader field opened up by war. 

Nor need we stay at the fifth century for confirmation 
of our theory. The following centuries were just as 
stormy and as new regions came into the sphere of con- 
flict Christianity entered also. What a glorious chapter 
of names we read as we follow the history of these times ! 
Patrick, captured in a raid of Irish tribes upon the Scots, 
was carried to Ireland as a slave, where during the quiet 
hours of captivity his missionary purposes developed. 
As a result Ireland was evangehzed and itself became the 
chief center of the missionary activity from the sixth to 
the ninth centuries. Here was born in 521 Columba, who 
in his earlier years distinguished himself in the conflict of 
the Irish tribesmen and, in fact, narrowly escaped ex- 



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communication because of his participation in the mas- 
sacres of the times. This, however, proved a turning 
point in his career and in 563 we find him founding at 
lona the monastery which fostered the missions to the 
pagans of north Scotland, the Picts. In Ireland also was 
born Columban, twenty years later, who labored in Gaul 
during the political chaos of the period resultant upon 
the invasion of the Roman colony by the Franks and 
other Teutonic tribes. Later we find him in Switzerland 
and northern Italy. Time fails to do more than name 
other great missionaries of the period, Augustine in Eng- 
land, Boniface in Germany, Ansgar in Scandinavia, 
Vladimir among the Slavs. Suffice it to point to the 
astounding result that this most turbulent of periods re- 
sulted in the Christianizing, at least nominally, of all 
Europe by the close of the ninth century. This Chris- 
tianization of these stalwart warlike tribes meant also 
the raising up for Christianity of strong defenders against 
the invasion of the infidel. By the battle of Tours in 732, 
when Charles Martel successfully defended the Chris- 
tian development of Europe for coming centuries, was 
secured the confining of Mohammedan conquests to the 
East, the turning of the tide, the Crusades, and the arous- 
ing even of the idea of proselytizing among the Moham- 
medans. 

After surveying this period, it is significant to find 
again that undisturbed possession resulted in depression 
of missionary activity. By the close of the ninth century 
the Roman bishop thought no more of missionary con- 
quests. Europe was his and with the assurance of tem- 
poral power the dark ages of missions set in, broken only 
by the heroic efforts of a few individuals such as the 
martyr Raymond Lull. Before further great external 
effort was made it was necessary that the Church purify 
herself internally. While we cannot deny praise to the 
real zeal of the missionary orders which sprang up in the 
Middle Ages, we find the truly great efforts after the 



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Reformation and the quickening of a new spirit in Chris- 
tendom. 

We cannot leave this brief resume of some of the early- 
missionary achievements without noting further some 
of the indirect effects of the wars and conquests which 
mark the time. The period of Roman conquest and 
supremacy, as is often remarked, itself paved the way 
for the rapid extension of Christianity. The wonderful 
roads, built largely for military purposes, proved also an 
effective means of communication for the missionary. 
The Greek language, practically the official language for 
the East, made possible intercommunication of ideas in a 
common tongue and the rapid dissemination of the Gos- 
pel. A striking modern parallel is the conquest of India, 
the consequent opening of India to missionary effort, the 
building up there of English as a common tongue, for 
the upper classes at least, and the greater homogeneity 
which has been produced there by the common tongue and 
superior means of communication. 

We find also that the Roman soldier himself was often 
an effective missionary. It is commonly believed that the 
evangelization of the Britons was brought about in no 
small measure by the efforts of individual soldiers in the 
first and second centuries A. D. Christ Himself and the 
Apostles found soldiers often the most promising mate- 
rial for disciples. We shall never be able to measure the 
effect of the often unnoticed labors of the soldier who has 
carried with him the spirit of Christ when in other lands. 
It is interesting to find that the founding of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church in America was due to a Wesleyan 
convert. Captain Thomas Webb, who, while stationed in 
garrison in New York, joined himself to a few Metho- 
dists in the city and aided in the foundation of this de- 
nomination here. It is not difficult nor visionary to imag- 
ine that what occurred here in the eighteenth century 
may have been occurring all through the centuries, and 
that with the names of such great soldier missionaries 



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as Davis of Japan, House of Persia, and Christy of 
Tarsus, there are to be coupled a legion of those unnoted 
in history who have journeyed to war and have not for- 
gotten their higher loyalty to the Christ. In this connec- 
tion it may well be noted also that new friends for the 
missionary movement will almost certainly be found 
among the soldiers who have been stationed during the 
recent war in mission fields such as Persia and Mesopo- 
tamia. 

II. War and the Sacrificial Spirit 

An historical survey also convinces us that the 
present increased interest in missions, to which we re- 
ferred at the beginning of this paper, is due in large part 
to the general quickening of the emotions in time of war, 
to the rebirth of the spirit of sacrifice, and the enlarging 
of men's vision. The blood of the martyrs proved to be 
the seed of the Church partly because of the noble exam- 
ple and partly because of the fact that periods of danger, 
of human need, and of human suffering, lead to a general 
awakening of the spirit. Since times of war bring such 
periods, we find in them signs of this quickened life. 

What conspicuous proof of this fact we find when 
we study the history of Europe in the troubled times of 
the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars which 
followed ! There is a veritable renaissance in the field 
of literature, but in no sphere do we find greater proof 
of the new life which came than in the missionary enter- 
prise. It can hardly be wholly an accident of contem- 
poraneity that during these years the Church roused it- 
self from its lethargy and took up anew the missionary 
task. The spirit of the War of Independence and the 
French Revolution was in the air. England underwent 
a great religious revival and the dead formalism of the 
previous age gave place to a new faith. Her great con- 
quests had made her overlord of much of the non-Chris- 
tian world and now for the first time did she become in 



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any large measure conscious of the responsibility which 
was thus placed upon her. In quick succession one after 
another of the great missionary societies was founded: 
in 1792, the Baptist Missionary Society; in 1795, the 
London Missionary Society; in 1799, the Church Mis- 
sionary Society; in 1800, the Religious Tract Society; 
in 1813, the British and Foreign Bible Society ; in 1810, 
the American Board ; in 1812, the American Baptist For- 
eign Mission Society; in 1816, the American Bible So- 
ciety; and, in 1819, the Methodist Episcopal Board of 
Foreign Missions. We would not slight the efforts put 
forward in the preceding years, the splendid work of 
individual missionaries and a few societies, but these 
efforts were more or less sporadic in their nature, while 
the great revival of the late eighteenth and early nine- 
teenth centuries bespeaks some unusual cause. It may 
be found, in some measure at least, in the motives aroused 
by the wars of the time. 

This conclusion may be strengthened also by reference 
to our own Civil War, when again we find that the mo- 
tives underlying the war and finding expression in it 
transferred thejnselves to the cause of missions. This 
period and the years immediately following witnessed 
the founding of many of the women's boards of foreign 
missions. 

III. War and the Enrichment of Christianity 

In the third place, let us note in the light of history 
the ultimate enrichment of Christianity which has been 
brought about by its spread throughout new territories 
opened up by wars. Warneck, in his "History of Protes- 
tant Missions," has ably expressed this thought in his 
picture of the missions of the apostolic age: "In the 
apostolic age the grafting of the wild branches into the 
good stem of the good olive-tree (Rom. 11 : 17) not only 
saved the infant Church from the dominion of a new 
legalism, but also secured for it its future as the religion 



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of the world." The experience of that age has been 
paralleled whenever the missionary message has been car- 
ried into new realms and has come into contact with new 
types of thought. We have seen how once and again a 
Church which was becoming self-centered was saved 
from itself by missionary activity. With its spread among 
the barbarians who broke into the Roman Empire, strange 
new heresies developed. Wherever its missionaries went 
new conceptions of the truth arose; but the final result 
was the enriching of the gospel message. Jesus Christ 
is too universal in His character to be interpreted by any 
one people or race. Disrupting war and conquests and 
the subsequent enlargement of His Kingdom have indi- 
rectly done much for the fuller interpretation of His 
character. 

We have refrained from any consideration of the 
World War through which we have just passed, in order 
that we might first have the guide of history as we en- 
deavor to measure its results in their relationship to mis- 
sionary activity. Now that we have before us certain 
historical impressions we may, though with a certain 
diffidence because of its immediacy, note briefly whether 
this greatest war of the ages may be found to follow those 
underlying principles which we have been discussing. 

Taking up the principles in the order stated, we find 
that, though in somewhat different fashion, this war has 
been one of the most conspicuous examples of the break- 
ing down of old national lines and bids fair to result in 
the larger unity which has followed similar disruptions. 
We do not deal here with conquests of barbarian tribes, 
but the principle remains the same, since the same inti- 
mate contacts have been brought about. We are over- 
whelmed by the thought of the immensity of the possi- 
bilities involved if there should be a repetition of some 
of the facts of earlier history. Nineteen tribes of Africa 
fought on the side of the Allies. Not only did Christians 



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mingle with non-Christians in remote parts of the earth, 
but the unique spectacle was presented of the active parti- 
cipation of these non-Christian peoples of almost every 
color and race in the struggles in the West. The possi- 
bilities of the closer intimacy, the better mutual under- 
standing, which are necessary accompaniments of evan- 
gelization, are very great. No finer summing up of the 
situation could be found than in the great "Ballad of East 
and West" by Kipling, the first two lines of which are so 
often quoted but which do not penetrate so deeply into 
the truth as do the two ringing fines which follow: 

"But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, 
nor Birth; 
When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they 
come from the ends of the earth." 

The strong men of India, Africa, China, and many other 
non-Christian nations have stood face to face with our 
own strongest. The old wall of partition between East 
and West is down and in the new vital relationship lies 
an infinitude of possibilities for Christian missions. 

We are privileged to live in a day when the second 
principle of the quickening of sympathies, the enlarge- 
ment of vision, and the consequent intensification of mis- 
sionary activities has been clearly apparent. Perhaps 
more than any other war the recent struggle issued from 
motives of an ennobling type. Many of those who have 
served in the war have realized fully the great moral 
issues at stake and, with the higher vision which they 
have gained, are ready to devote their lives to a higher 
purpose than they had formerly in mind. The number 
of soldiers returning from the war who have offered 
themselves for missionary service has amply proved that 
some have been tried by fire and come forth purified. 
Before those who have been at home there has been the 
example of those who have suffered and died for them, 
and in many a Christian's heart this has led to a deeper 



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consecration, a more purposeful desire himself to do 
something for others. The Churches everywhere need 
to realize the bigness of the opportunity, to use this new 
combative energy released by the war in a new war 
against vice, disease, poverty, death ; to extend the range 
of sympathy created by the war to the needs of men 
everywhere ; as Bishop Gore aptly puts it, "to carry for- 
ward into the period of peace the discipline of service 
and of sacrifice which we have learned in the war." 
Present observation, supported by history, convinces us 
that we stand on the threshold of a great era for missions. 
In the period of the war itself the contributions to mis- 
sionary societies both here and in Great Britain in- 
creased.^ Will the great sums expended for philanthropic 
purposes in the war go back into some of the old selfish 
channels or will they go into the great warfare for 
Christ? 

Finally, what can we say of the ultimate enrichment of 
Christianity which may follow the blendings of the na- 
tions which we have portrayed as resulting from the re- 
cent struggle? While the historian may judge from the 
experience of the past, we need the prophet's eye to 
envision the future that may result from an effective 
realization of the opportunities now ours. The contact 
with new tribes in the past may have added strength to 
Christianity but it cannot be compared with the rich 
results which would follow the development of the doc- 
trine of the Cross among the Eastern nations with which 
we have now come into closer contact. There is no 
doubt but that the practical West, while developing the 
ideals of Jesus, yet fails, through an innate incapacity, 
to apprehend fully the mystic Christ. Once the ideal of 
Jesus Christ shall be enthroned in the East — in religious 



2 Gifts of money from various countries increased from $16,- 
000,000 in 1915 to $21,000,000 in 1918. See Charles R. Watson, 
"Report of the Foreign Missions Conference," 1919. 



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India, for example — what so-called heresies and what 
great new thought may be born of the contact! 

Warneck has stated that every missionary development 
has its three stages : first, that of the sending of the indi- 
vidual and of individual conversions, the gathering of 
comparatively small churches; second, that of organized 
work by the native forces and the cultivation of the 
church life; third, that of the Christianizing of masses, 
which is generally connected with the occurrence of spe- 
cially great historical events, political revolutions, and 
the acceptance of Christianity by reigning chiefs. May 
this great war through which we have passed, and these 
political and social revolutions now raging bear rich fruit 
in the evangelizing, not only of individuals, but, accord- 
ing to Christ's own words, of the nations ! 



CHAPTER XV 

LESSONS FROM THE WAR AS TO PROPA- 
GANDA FOR MISSIONS 

There were few more striking aspects of the war than 
the tremendous campaign of publicity and popular edu- 
cation commonly designated as propaganda. Before the 
war the term often had a somewhat sinister connotation, 
a connotation which was accentuated by the use of the 
word in connection with Germany's subtle endeavors to 
justify the war in the eyes of the world. The expres- 
sion has now come, however, to be widely accepted as 
meaning any organized program for a broadcast dis- 
semination of ideas, and it is in this sense that we shall 
use it here. If any of the old stigma still lingers in the 
term, we may hope that it will become disassociated 
therefrom by being applied to the missionary enterprise. 

I. The Place of Propaganda in Any Movement 

The whole idea of propaganda was heartily accepted 
and justified on every side during the war. Every nation 
engaged in the conflict recognized the vital necessity for 
the wide dissemination of the ideas that would arouse 
patriotism and secure vigorous action. Probably never 
before in the history of the world had such extensive and 
effective plans of popular education and publicity been 
put into effect. There was a general assumption that the 
success or failure of the nation would in large measure be 
determined by it. Propaganda is now an approved factor 
in carrying on any movement that calls for the sympathy 
and cooperation of a great body of people. 

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of propaganda has a significance for Christian missions 
that has not been sufficiently recognized. It used to be 
urged by critics of the foreign missionary movement that 
it was unseemly in us to force our ideas upon other peo- 
ple, but now when this is the very thing that the nations 
at large have been doing and which is recognized as 
justified, the foundation of the old objection to the mis- 
sionary attitude is completely gone. Instead of feeling 
a reluctance we recognize a compulsion and a responsi- 
bility to propagate any conviction that we hold important 
for the world. 

In addition to justifying the idea of propaganda, the 
war experience ought also to teach us something with 
regard to its possible use in securing home support for 
foreign missions. From the methods of war propaganda 
and the motives to which it made appeal we ought to be 
able to gather lessons for our work. 

II. Lessons from the War Propaganda 

There are certainly aspects of the war propaganda on 
which we may wisely build, not in a merely imitative way, 
but with careful adaptation and modification in the light 
of the different character of the work. 

1. The public mind is now prepared for propaganda. 
The various well-organized drives and campaigns, to- 
gether with the plans and publicity programs which were 
necessary to make them effective, have left a strong im- 
press and created a readiness to accept just claims. The 
public mind, therefore, may well be a more fruitful field 
than formerly for missionary propaganda. 

2. We have a new appreciation of the contagion of 
ideas when effectively set forth. After certain ideas and 
ideals connected with the winning of the war came to 
command completely the lives of many individuals, they 
were spread everywhere by the contagion of print, and 
speech, and life. It is just such a sway of convincing ideas 
through the influence of personal conviction and expres- 



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sion that is needed in the spread and deepening of mis- 
sionary interest in the Church. 

3. From the effectiveness of our war propaganda we 
ought to have learned the necessity of presenting facts in 
the most effective ways. The appeal of the war propa- 
ganda was conveyed in the greatest variety of form, to 
the eye as well as to the ear, through picture and poster 
as well as through the printed page, through word of 
mouth and personal contacts. The challenge was univer- 
sal. It was impossible to escape the call of the facts. 
They appealed in unexpected ways and in unexpected 
places. Certainly there are aspects of this experience 
which should be instructive to the Church. The great 
majority of Christians are woefully uninformed concern- 
ing the missionary movement. The cause of this igno- 
rance lies, no doubt, in large measure in the individual, 
but certainly the efforts of the organized agencies of the 
Church to give such information in the most impressive 
and appealing way have been entirely inadequate. 

4. A significant avenue of propaganda was the so- 
called "four-minute men." The Government enlisted an 
army of 20,000 of these speakers. In this plan the facts 
were vitalized by personality. They not only spread in- 
formation throughout the land, but also became enthusi- 
asts themselves in the cause. The contagion of their 
enthusiasm was undoubtedly one of the most effective 
means of influencing public opinion during the war. The 
value of a wider use of some similar means of promotion 
of the missionary cause would be very great. 

5. In connection with the appeal of the war for life 
there are several outstanding facts that are worth calling 
to mind in our missionary appeal. We have learned in 
the first place that the appeal for life must be primary, 
the appeal for money secondary. The nation needed both 
money and men, but its supreme need was for men, and 
one of the amazing features of the war was the ease 
with which money was secured because life was ready for 



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service. People at home gave to war causes because their 
sons, or relatives, or friends were in France. The war 
came home to them when human life was being offered 
for the cause to which they were asked to contribute. It 
is an emphasis that in our missionary appeals we ought 
to keep more clearly to the fore. Have we not too often 
tended to look for money first and for men and women 
afterwards ? 

We may also remind ourselves that in securing life 
the Government did not depend upon volunteers, but 
regarded every citizen as under call for service. Those 
who were qualified for service abroad and most needed 
there were called upon to go. Others were used in a 
host of ways at home. The great principle was that 
every citizen was in service for the common cause. In 
the Church we cannot actually draft men for foreign 
service, but we can lay more insistently upon those who 
are qualified their peculiar responsibility. We need also 
to select men, not for service in general, but for particular 
tasks on certain fields. Most important of all we must 
build up throughout the Church the point of view which 
regards every Christian as one who is in some way en- 
listed in the missionary cause. 

6. The Governmsnt knew that the only way to provide 
enough men, funds, and leadership for the task was first 
to estimate the resources needed and then bend every 
energy to fill the demand. It did not calculate how much 
money or how many men we could conveniently raise. It 
calculated what would be necessary to do the job. We 
need a similar approach to our missionary task. Careful 
surveys of the fields and a thorough tabulation of forces 
needed to occupy them would make possible a far 
stronger appeal both for money and life. What we need 
first of all is not to know what resources we may hope to 
secure, but what resources are demanded in order to carry 
out the task. 

7. The education of the public in support of the war 



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was carried on by strong organizations built up for that 
purpose, which employed trained specialists and de- 
manded liberal expenditures of money. The results jus- 
tified it. The Church needs to carry on a campaign of 
public education in missionary responsibility, and careful 
organization with wise but liberal expenditure of money 
will be needed in its task also. 

8. The war propaganda was in the interest of getting 
big things done in a big way. We discovered that multi- 
tudes of people whose generosity had never been drawn 
out by the Church have capacities for responding in a 
noble way. In a day when men have ideals of a size 
formerly undreamed of and have become accustomed to 
undertakings on a magnificent scale, the Church must 
teach its members that this is the time for the greatest 
Christian campaign in history. We have a new apprecia- 
tion of the fact that the very magnitude of a task is a 
potent factor in securing a great response. 

9. The war propaganda had the excellence of calling 
upon men to do a great work together. The undertaking 
was overwhelming enough to evoke a genuine unity. 
Unity at home was a prime demand and was achieved in 
an astonishing degree. United community appeals for 
funds were everywhere successful, not only in actually 
raising funds, but in awakening the interest of each 
community as a whole. Unity abroad among the armies 
was equally indispensable. No one can measure the ex- 
tent to which the united strategy of the Allied armies was 
actually responsible for winning the war. We see with 
greater clearness how imperative it is that this spirit of 
united efifort, even if not all the methods employed, be 
laid hold of by the Church. There is no other cause 
where the Churches have so much in common as in 
foreign missions, nor is there any other cause where com- 
petition, duplication, and waste are so inexcusable. The 
Interchurch World Movement is aiming now at a 
greater unification of efforts and there are great possi- 



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bilities involved in its unified approach and unified appeal. 
There is still further need that our unity of action go 
beyond even interdenominational activities in this coun- 
try. Movements within the various nations need to be 
unified now as much as they did in the prosecution of the 
war. Unless we can bring our Christian forces together 
internationally, we cannot hope to carry on adequately 
the missionary occupation of non-Christian lands. The 
experience of the war ought in some measure at least 
to have prepared all Christians to unite in their tasks and 
to make possible a missionary program of unparalleled 
breadth and power. 

III. Dangers in War-Time Propaganda 

But other tendencies appeared in war propaganda 
which have a note of warning in them. We need to re- 
mind ourselves, therefore, of certain dangers that we 
shall do well to avoid. 

1. There is the danger of supposing that we can bring 
about the sudden, wide acceptance of an idea without the 
necessary preparation of a patient, long-continued educa- 
tional process. We need to remember that in large part 
the success of our governmental undertakings during the 
war rested on some long-standing educational facts. Back 
of the response of the people there were the years of 
training in patriotism which had been preached through 
the home and school, in church and street, in formal and 
informal ways. There was a foundation upon which the 
nation in its war work could build. Neither in the war 
nor in missions can we hope to erect a superstructure of 
results through promotional publicity without having pre- 
viously planted in the hearts and consciences of the peo- 
ple a genuine understanding of the work. 

2. The war propaganda, however, in many ways, de- 
spite the helpful background of patriotism just described, 
was a short cut to action instead of a development of a 
steady movement. The emergency conditions were such 



216 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

that it could not be otherwise. But missionary propa- 
ganda cannot safely follow these lines. It demands the 
same urgency as the war campaign, but it must of neces- 
sity be steady and cumulative, resting not upon surface 
enthusiasm but upon the principles of unselfishness and 
spirituality. 

3. There was often a tendency in war-time efforts to 
appeal to any motives one thought might secure the de- 
sired result, whether these motives were worthy or un- 
worthy. We must carefully distinguish between the types 
of motive to which appeal may be made. Much of the 
propaganda used for war, though it may have been tem- 
porarily effective in that realm, would be worse than 
valueless in connection with a religious movement. 

4. Again, there was a danger of exaggerated state- 
ment and even of lack of sincerity. This is perhaps the 
most insidious of the evils to which the propagandist may 
fall victim. Careless and exaggerated statement, while 
wrong in any movement, may not have such a harmful 
effect in the abnormal atmosphere of war when people 
pass with great rapidity in their thinking from one phase 
of a subject to another. In the missionary propaganda, 
however, the slightest suspicion of untruth is fraught 
with danger to the cause. 

5. Abnormal pressure leading sometimes to unwilling 
giving was an element in the promotion of war funds that 
must be carefully avoided. In some communities people 
almost had the feeling that they were being "held up." 
If the war had continued longer we would have begun 
to feel "overcampaigned." If we are to enlist the giver 
as well as the gift it must be the worth of the cause itself, 
not an external pressure, that is the stimulus. 

6. Perhaps the greatest mistake that we could make 
in trying to build upon the experience of the war would 
be to suppose that the high tension methods used in a 
national emergency can be used unchanged in a move- 
ment of a very different character. The war was for a 



THE WAR AND PROPAGANDA 217 

few years at most; missionary service or support is for 
life. The war was a public thing which could count on 
easy enthusiasm ; missions has to appeal to deep religious 
convictions and experience. The war propaganda made 
its appeal to everyone ; missions can make its full appeal 
only to those with spiritual vision and with hearts touched 
by the spirit of Christ. However much we learn from 
our war activities, let us not suppose that the Kingdom 
of God can be established without other means than those 
that the kingdoms of this world use. 

IV. The Motives to Which Missionary Propaganda 
Should Appeal 

The motives to which our war propaganda appealed 
were as diverse as could well be imagined — desire for 
adventure, fear, hate, duty, loyalty, sympathy for the 
suffering, desire for service, ambition to do the heroic. 
The motives thus appealed to were in part such as are 
stirred in every war. But there were three at least that 
were so characteristic of the idealism with which so many 
entered the struggle that they should have something to 
teach us concerning the motives to which foreign missions 
can wisely and successfully appeal. 

1. The appeal to unselfish world-wide service. We 
hardly knew before the war how much capacity for un- 
selfishness there was in ordinary human life. It is beyond 
question that hundreds of thousands of men went into 
the conflict because it seemed to afford a great oppor- 
tunity to do something generous, chivalrous, and sacrifi- 
cial. With them personal fortunes were lost sight of. 
So also was compensation. Millions of others at home 
denied themselves in other ways, not grudgingly, but be- 
cause they had found something greater than their own 
narrow self-interest for which to live. Under the stimu- 
lus of war men all over the land were found ready to put 
the welfare of the nation first and to find their satisfac- 
tion in ministering to the common good. 



218 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

And this responsiveness to appeal for unselfish service 
carried with it a new sense of world responsibility. Be- 
fore the war we felt ourselves to be isolated and self- 
contained and were satisfied to be so. We felt that the 
affairs of the rest of the world were not of our making 
and their muddles not attributable to us. Suddenly we 
found ourselves immersed in all the currents of interna- 
tional life and called upon to be the Good Samaritan of 
the world. We came to think of ourselves almost as a 
"missionary nation." When the President went before 
Congress during the war, he gave in substance great, 
national "foreign mission" addresses. He crossed the 
country, sounding the altruistic note of a new interna- 
tionalism which would bind America to a great responsi- 
bility in the uplift of the world. Everywhere there was a 
most generous response to this new appeal of our world 
obligations. The later opposition in Congress and else- 
where to this enlarging of our horizon is very similar in 
its tenor to anti-missionary arguments that we have so 
often heard. When the arguments against our new 
world relationships as a nation are overcome the mission- 
ary movement ought surely to have something on which 
to build. 

2. The appeal to sympathy for the suffering and the 
unfortunate. In securing support for the war there were 
few if any motives that were more successfully appealed 
to than this. In America the war was depicted as an 
effort to help the oppressed and the suffering. The wrong 
done to weaker nations and their need were constantly 
held before us. Belgium became almost a symbol of why 
we were in the war. Unquestionably we came to feel 
more keenly that the fortunate of the earth are under 
obligations to share their good fortune with those not so 
blessed. The nation responded on a tremendous scale to 
the challenge that those who are strong ought to bear the 
infirmities of the weak. We have had a new demonstra- 
tion that there is a great treasure of human sympathy 



THE WAR AND PROPAGANDA 219 

and altruism to which foreign missions with its program 
of help for backward, needy, suffering peoples can make 
a powerful appeal. 

3. The appeal to the heroic spirit. The challenge of 
the war was presented in terms so stupendous as to seem 
overwhelming, but it was the very greatness of the task 
that was one secret of its hold upon the hearts of men. 
It called upon a great store of latent heroism and dis- 
closed to us what capacities for noble living there are in 
ordinary men. The most hopeful thing about the war 
was this robust and heroic attitude toward life that it 
engendered in so many lives. It is clear that in the 
Church we need a moral equivalent of war, "something 
heroic," to quote William James, "that will speak to men 
as universally as war does and yet will be as compatible 
with their spiritual selves as the war has shown itself to 
be incompatible." 

How superbly the foreign missionary enterprise meets 
such a need ! Nowhere else is there such an outlet as it 
affords for maintaining the high spirit of heroic living 
and self-forgetful service that was displayed under the 
challenge of the war. We need not hesitate in the light 
of the experience of the last few years to make the mis- 
sionary appeal daring, courageous, sacrificial, both for 
those who go abroad and for those who support it here 
at home. We have seen in an unmistakable way the 
power of Jesus' appeal to the heroic in humanity : "If any 
man would come after me, let him deny himself, and 
take up his cross daily, and follow me." 

"How hard it will be for many who have been lifted 
out of themselves by the call of their country in these 
days to go back to a monotonous life in which no great 
purpose fills its dullest moments with meaning and value. 
This is the opportunity for a great religious word to be 
spoken, even the word that Jesus spoke in Galilee. Let 
them hear not simply the call of country but that of hu- 
manity. Let them enlist not simply for the duration of 



220 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

the war but for a lifelong passion. Let them know that 
this purpose links them with the age-long purpose of a 
loving God."^ 



1 H. T. Hodgkin, "Lay Religion," p. 124. 



CHAPTER XVI 

NEW DEMANDS REGARDING THE CHARAC- 
TER AND TRAINING OF 
MISSIONARIES 

It is evident to the candid and competent observer that 
the Great War, far from displacing or belittHng the mis- 
sionary, has given him a larger function than ever. If a 
new spirit of brotherliness, a fresh sense of opportunity, 
and a freedom of self-expression are at hand in many 
parts of the world, these are not only due in great part 
to missionary idealism but also call for continuing mis- 
sionary support and suggestion. The coming days will 
mean a vast expansion of missionary opportunity. At 
the same time they will clearly call for missionaries 
equipped to render a service of first-rate quality. They 
will involve increasing carefulness in the choice and guid- 
ance of missionary candidates, a greater stress upon the 
quality and range of their training, a readier recognition 
of the mutual responsibilities of boards and of candi- 
dates in the securing of adequate training. The Chris- 
tian Church must make up its mind, not alone that it will 
need many more missionaries for the tasks of tomorrow 
and that these must be of unusual quality, but that it is 
bound to enable such men and women to prepare them- 
selves for their world-ranging task with reasonable 
promptness and with real efficiency. The missionary's 
place of leadership makes it highly advisable that his 
preparation be as thorough as circumstances permit. He 
is not a mere worker who should be able to deal with 
ordinary emergencies, but a specialist on whose mastery 
of conditions may depend the character and value of the 



223 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

achievements of a considerable area. He is the repre- 
sentative of Occidental character, culture, and faith, on 
whose wisdom and goodness may rest the dependable 
friendship and steady progress of a nation, and the leader 
on whose idealism may depend the proper leavening of its 
life at every point with a true Christian spirit. The mis- 
sionary of the future days needs all the excellent qualities 
called for in the past and more. The question of his 
personality will be more than ever important. 

I. Elements of Personality to Be Emphasized 

The first-rate missionary serves his people in ways 
that cannot be fully outlined. His resourcefulness is ever 
being tested. Few, if any, acquisitions, even incidental 
ones, are wasted. Hence every responsible board secre- 
tary rejoices over evidences of the broad and varied as 
well as of the definitely thorough and essential training 
of each one of the missionaries he commissions. The mis- 
sionary of the future, like his great predecessors in the 
field, will be as broadly cultured, as scientifically trained 
for his specific professional task, whether that be teach- 
ing, healing, preaching, administering, or organizing, and 
as well prepared through experience as may have been 
possible under the conditions which have shaped his 
studies. The Great War, with its readjustments and 
challenging opportunities, has given rise, however, to a 
situation in the world of today which seems to lay great 
emphasis upon six elements of personality which demand 
cultivation, if the missionary leadership of tomorrow is 
to rise to the creative level of the past. The first of 
these is 

1. An international mind. Provincialism is always 
a bar to progress, whether exercised in a village, or at a 
capital, or in a mission area. It is religiously no less than 
politically belittling. It has been excusable and perhaps 
commendable when discovered to be the incidental ac- 
companiment of an age of pioneering, which has de- 



NEW DEMANDS ON MISSIONARIES 223 

manded great, practically exclusive, devotedness to a dis- 
trict and its interests or to a single human group. It will 
not continue to be commendable in the new age which 
we are facing. It is pleasing to the traveler in mission 
areas to note the real enthusiasm of the true missionary 
for his adopted people and for their interests, political 
as well as social. He is quite as likely as a national to be 
partisan. He resents intensely the unfairness with which 
greater powers may deal with his lifelong friends and in- 
terests. His heart beats high over their national advance- 
ment or becomes chilled over their misfortunes. He not 
infrequently shares their prejudices and sympathizes 
with their attitudes toward other peoples, through the 
very completeness of his identification with them. Every 
traveler in Japan and China has had occasion to notice 
this natural and, from some aspects, rather noble charac- 
teristic. Yet it must yield to the demands of Christian 
internationalism, which seeks to promote friendliness 
among all nations. China, Japan, and Korea must even- 
tually become in some sense a Far-Eastern unit. Only 
the missionary who can think soberly in terms of the Far 
East as a whole, whether his definite task is in Manchu- 
ria, Korea, China, Japan, or the PhiHppines, will be a wise 
and helpful leader during the next quarter century. His 
should be the sobering judgment which will temper, while 
supporting, the legitimate aspirations of his people for a 
self-ordered growth, and will assist them in viewing the 
world in its broad natural relationships of race, and tem- 
perament, and area. It is equally true that a Cape Town 
missionary should know all Africa, or a Madras mission- 
ary the Indian Empire. 

The truly international mind will not think merely 
from the standpoint of each mission area as a whole; 
it faces the world of need and cultivates a habit of con- 
sidering that whole world. The man or the nation which 
treats a neighbor fairly is prepared to think in friendly 
fashion of any man or every nation. So small and 



224 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

closely packed will the whole world of the next few 
decades be that each country and people, however ob- 
scure, will be better able to take its share in the world 
work. More than ever, then, all over the missionary 
world there is an imperative need for missionaries with 
the international mind, who will use their rare and fine 
enthusiasm and their devotedness to their people to make 
them loyal to the larger goals and the loftier hopes of 
the age. 

Along with this international mind should go 
2. A sense of brotherhood. One of the real obstacles 
to missionary efficiency in the largest sense in past years 
has been a feeling of superiority, rarely confessed but 
really existent, which, through a prolonged retention of 
leadership, has operated to delay the process of establish- 
ing self-sustaining, self-directing churches on the field. 
This feeling is sometimes racial; more often it is based 
upon the assumed superiority of Occidental brains or 
ways. It is dangerous because it is very subtle, yet per- 
meates the whole spirit of the one who experiences it. If 
excusable during the earlier stages of the missionary 
enterprise, it cannot endure much longer. Even in 
Korea, the country which has been a model of docile and 
apparently happy submission to missionary direction, the 
era of self-expression has been rather clearly reached. 
In other countries, even in Africa, the growth of a world- 
wide sense of democracy cannot fail to give rise to two 
clear-cut demands on the part of the nationals among 
whom a missionary works. They will desire to be treated 
as responsible beings capable of an intelligent self-expres- 
sion and directed toward such freedom. They will also 
expect to be rated as a people at their best, precisely as 
we desire to be estimated on our highest levels of Anglo- 
Saxon achievement. Washington and Lincoln are an 
unfailing reserve for the patriotic North American who 
finds himself in an atmosphere of criticism. They em- 
body our real ideals. History seems to show that no or- 



NEW DEMANDS ON MISSIONARIES 225 

ganized people on the earth, when given similar advan- 
tages to those which we enjoy, has failed to develop a 
strong type of personality worthy of a place in the human 
race. It will surely be the specific task of the next few 
decades to bring into the brotherhood of nations more 
than one people now unrecognized except as an object 
of compassionate regard. If this happens, it will be 
through missionary leadership, and, wherever it takes 
place, the responsible leaders will be those noble men and 
women who have risen completely above all prejudices or 
narrow ambitions and have gladly given themselves un- 
wearyingly to the gracious task of developing their peo- 
ple to the utmost, who are ready to recognize the innate 
powers of the people, and who, finally, are able to rejoice 
sincerely when their own leadership becomes over- 
shadowed by the distinct independence of the people they 
have trained. Nations under such enlightened Christian 
leadership may not be born in a day ; the process may be 
slow; yet a permanent national Christian consciousness 
will come to the light and it will be permanent. 

The missionary who helps to place a people on its feet 
must also have 

3. A socialised outlook. Aggressive Protestant Chris- 
tianity has too largely been satisfied in the past with the 
rescue of the individual rather than the regeneration of 
society. It has noted its triumphs numerically rather 
than intensively. This has characterized the missionary 
only as he has represented the home churches. They 
have been backward and narrow, rather than he. Today 
the Church at home, without minimizing the value of the 
regenerated individual, is becoming alert to its social 
mission and it welcomes the energetic sounding of the 
keynote of service on the field. The creation of a truly 
Christian society is its objective both at home and on mis- 
sionary soil. It is saving families, communities, regions, 
and nations. It is giving its energies to the support of 
needed reforms of all kinds. Only one who realizes and 



226 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

believes in this wide-ranging and practical definition of 
Christianity's task will be fitted to solve the missionary 
problems surely to be imposed by the coming social 
changes amid the peoples of the East. 

So vast and complicated, however, will be these prob- 
lems that they cannot be solved unless there is added to 
the characteristics of the future missionary 

4. A disposition toward cooperation. The man or 
woman who must have his own way or be unhappy, who 
finds teamwork irksome, has always been a mission draw- 
back. More than ever, in future days, will this be true. 
The steady progress in nation-making can be realized only 
through friendly cooperation. No group of men and 
women of one type of training or temperament, however 
large or important or resourceful it may be, can achieve 
this task as it must be carried through in the continents 
of Africa and Asia. Varied types of experience and of 
character are needed for such work. It will be far more 
worth while for many denominational groups, working in 
thorough concord and with an adequate organization, to 
be available for a nation than to give it over to a very 
large group of one single type. The missionary who is 
disposed to cooperate freely with the missionaries both 
of his own communion and of others is one who seeks 
to produce sound results in the most practical way, sink- 
ing his personal advancement or the glory of his denomi- 
nation in the achievement of mission results. Such a man 
will rejoice in the successes of all others ; he will readily 
yield his own advantage in order that the national Church 
may be the gainer; he will join heartily in the continua- 
tion committees or national councils or in the federated 
activities of each mission area ; he will support all neces- 
sary measures for the wielding of missionary influence 
with the aggregated strength of all of the groups in any 
particular area. 

In view of the plain lessons of history a missionary of 
the future must have 



NEW DEMANDS ON MISSIONARIES 227 

5, A message with a clearly Christo centric emphasis. 
The Gospel in its essential simplicity is the gospel that 
saves. Not theology but Jesus brings the world to real 
repentance. Those who follow His teachings and sin- 
cerely desire to exhibit His spirit are likely to fulfil every 
sort of law, for Jesus taught men how to live in godly 
fashion. 

No one has ever been found too ignorant to be im- 
pressed by the spirit of Jesus or to catch something of 
His dominant ideahsm. Luke's story of the Christ is quite 
as well understood by the ignorant black of Africa as by 
the wealthy worshiper of North America. Few catch the 
niceties of theological distinctions, yet every human being 
can know in a very real sense the Jesus of history and 
experience. As time goes on the missionary message 
becomes simple rather than complex. It is Christocentric 
on the principle that he who knows Jesus Christ knows 
God, duty, and destiny and can take his place among the 
ranks of the army of the Lord. 

In the future, however, the missionary will also have 

6. A friendly appreciation of the vital truths in non- 
Christian thinking and literature. The better knowledge 
we possess today of non-Christian systems of belief and 
practice has tended to alter greatly the attitude of the 
Christian apologist to other historical religions. In place 
of absolute and contemptuous rejection as systems of 
religious thinking the fair-minded Christian recognizes 
them as embodying certain stages, more or less imperfect, 
in the progress of such thinking. By studying these his- 
torical religions and all manifestations of the religious 
instinct, in order to ascertain the elements in them which 
have ministered to the spiritual life of humankind, the 
missionary will be prepared both to enter sympathetically 
into the religious thinking of his people and to estimate 
fairly the definite contribution which Christianity can 
make to the noblest and most representative among them. 
Experience has shown that this friendly and appreciative 



228 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

approach to a nation nominally devoted to a type of reli- 
gion is more effective than a denunciatory attitude, while 
at the same time it is a more reasonable and Christlike 
approach. 

The missionary thus ready to identify his life in broad 
fashion with his adopted people, able to clarify and inter- 
nationalize their thinking and practice, willing to make 
himself a part of a movement, clear with regard to his 
own message, yet able to recognize and interpret spiritual 
values everywhere, will be a real and important factor in 
the decades of wonderful advancement before the Chris- 
tian enterprise. We may now consider the training by 
which these qualities are given largest opportunity for 
development. 

II. Courses of Training to Be Emphasized 

The training of a missionary varies in some measure 
with the general type of service undertaken, whether 
general or medical, educational or technical, and with 
the missionary area to be entered. It has always been 
recognized, however, that a well-rounded, cultural educa- 
tion forms the desirable basis of missionary efficiency in 
all tasks and in every field. Stress has always been placed 
by representative boards upon the adequate professional 
or technical training of a missionary and upon the acquisi- 
tion by every sort of worker of a religious knowledge 
which will make him a capable teacher of Christianity. 
In addition, each missionary has been encouraged to gain 
all possible acquaintance with the history, language, 
literature, religion, and manners of his adopted people. 

No notable departure from these general standards 
will be called for in the days to come, yet certain courses 
of study and some lines of experience may be mentioned 
which will serve to develop the qualities noted above 
that are desirable in the missionary who is to serve well 
the coming age. Most of these will be gained or at least 
initiated at home. With the growing efficiency of train- 



NEW DEMANDS ON MISSIONARIES 229 

ing schools for each mission area, provision may be made 
at them also for some of the training under consideration. 

1. The history of non-Christian areas and of our rela- 
tions with them. During the past decade several institu- 
tions for higher learning in North America have offered 
courses in the history of China, Japan, and India which 
have proved of much value to prospective missionaries to 
these countries. Now that North America is becoming 
a factor in international affairs, these institutions and 
others are not unlikely to make wider provision of this 
sort. From the missionary standpoint it is the historical 
development of mission areas, such as the Near East, 
the British-Indian Empire, the Far East, and Latin Amer- 
ica, that is most needed, rather than a presentation of the 
present-day problems of each area. It is China down to 
1910, Japan to the end of the Meiji era, Latin America 
and India in their formative periods, which can be taught 
with entire success at home. For the portrayal of the 
passing situation the young missionary may well rely 
upon his year or more of field training. 

Another matter of growing importance is the study of 
the history of the diplomatic relations between our coun- 
try and various Oriental nations. Missionaries do not 
as a rule know much of international law or diplomatic 
history. They are thus often at a loss, particularly in 
these days, and will be even more so in the future under 
similar circumstances because they do not know how to 
answer charges of unfairness. 

No one can become a convinced and convincing inter- 
nationalist on theory alone, however Christian it may be. 
He must know the various peoples, their history, their 
character, their typical life, their possibilities. Such 
knowledge is of no less value to the missionary statesman 
of tomorrow than his acquaintance with American or 
continental development. It is the one sort of knowledge 
that fits him to develop a real sense of brotherhood and 
an international mind. 



230 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

2. The study of the statesmanship of. missions. 
Among the real hindrances to the most rapid and efficient 
development of a mission area are individualism and 
denominational pride. Each grows out of an over- 
emphasis upon denominational history, achievements, 
progress, and repute, and upon the individual rather than 
the social task of the missionary. They tend to center 
enthusiasm upon local progress rather than upon that of 
a nation. Community and national salvation depend 
upon teamwork among leaders and among missions. 
Such cooperation is not difficult for those who realize its 
significance and the local freedom which may and should 
accompany it. Those to whom the technical instruction 
of would-be missionaries is intrusted need to offer in the 
coming days not alone courses in the history of the world- 
wide mission enterprise and in the principles of mission- 
ary achievement, but also those which will stress very 
definitely the obligation and the outcome of such con- 
certed mission action as that which is found at its best 
today in China, but is closely paralleled by that in India 
and with less efficiency in Latin America and in the 
Japanese Empire. The young missionaries of tomorrow 
ought to go to the field already convinced of the wisdom 
of working in close concert and prepared to assume the 
responsibilities involved. When, in one of the areas 
mentioned, several missionaries could assure the writer, 
a year ago, that provision for the study of the national 
language was a matter that must be carefully guarded 
by each mission group, since that group could direct the 
language instruction of its own young missionaries with 
greater efficiency than any other agency and since by 
such a method the segregation of these young mission- 
aries from their own circle would be avoided, no argu- 
ment is required to make it clear that some missionaries, 
even today, are singularly short-sighted, A course in 
missionary statesmanship, taken early, is, aside from its 



NEW DEMANDS ON MISSIONARIES 231 

other values, the best means of inoculating against such 
deadly narrowness. 

Those who are to bear the varied and strenuous bur- 
dens of leadership in the coming days must also seek 

3. The acquisition of sound experience in forms of 
social and community service. It has become a settled 
habit on the part of board secretaries to look upon some 
actual experience in teaching as almost a requisite for 
one who is commissioned as an educational missionary. 
A merely well-rounded cultural course of preparation is 
not considered sufficient. A similar demand for some 
social experience should, perhaps, be made upon most 
missionaries who are looked upon as giving promise of 
real leadership. Not every missionary can become a 
social expert. For responsible leaders of definite enter- 
prises our boards will secure and commission actual ex- 
perts. Such leaders will, however, be rendered impotent 
if they do not gain the sympathetic support of the mis- 
sionary groups amidst and for whom they are working. 
A comparatively short course in applied economics or 
sociology with conducted, critical visits to typical institu- 
tions and enterprises would furnish the comprehension 
required to grasp a social need, to demand a social pro- 
gram, and to secure the adequate support. A much more 
thorough course of training would not be wasted, since 
many of the pressing problems of all non-Christian areas 
are sure to be increasingly of a social or economic order. 
No one can stress too greatly the value of political econ- 
omy and social science in application to modern life. 

Finally, a fresh emphasis may wisely be given to 

4. The study of the religions of the world and of 
Christianity in a friendly hut scientific comparison. 
The fundamental question at issue for the coming mis- 
sionary is not the range, history, or thinking, or even the 
practice, of a non-Christian religion, regarded as a group 
of interesting data, but the recognition of the vital, direc- 
tive elements of each religion with a view to exhibiting 



232 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

Christianity as possessed of all those elements and more. 
The process of recognition, if thorough and fairly con- 
ducted, will prevent a wholesale condemnation of non- 
Christian beliefs and will stimulate an untechnical, Chris- 
tocentric appraisal of Christianity. One will thus be pre- 
pared to interpret Christianity to sincere, intelligent fol- 
lowers of another faith simply, fairly, and in friendly 
fashion, quite as our Lord Himself would have done. 

5. A more vital study of the various ways in which 
religion may take hold of life. Sympathetic as one may 
be with a social ministry, it cannot be denied that there is 
such a thing as individualism. Mankind cannot be run 
into a mould and be dealt with wholesale. Each people 
moulded by a historical religion has developed certain 
forms of approach, an understanding of which should be 
significant for the earnest missionary, giving him a sug- 
gestion of method and message for that people.^ Above 
all, however, a fresh study of Christianity itself should be 
emphasized, both historically and in the light of today, 
in its growing mastery of world conditions and its clearer 
use of approved methods. One might mention also the 
importance of a study of the value for one's own life of 
the relations of others. 

Such suggestions as these must be considered in the 
light of the unquestionable fact that missionary genius 
must not be fettered. All schemes are partial. No train- 
ing will help some candidates ; others need but little. We 
can but set forth these ideals and methods in the hope 
that they will prove suggestive to those who have the 
heavy responsibility of discovering, selecting, and super- 
vising the training of the splendid students who will de- 
velop into our future missionaries. A missionary must 
be, most of all, a real man, sincere, fair-minded, thought- 
ful, optimistic, tactful, persistent, a good mixture of the 



1 Compare the lines of approach developed by the Board of 
Missionary Preparation in the reports on Hinduism, Islam, and 
Confucianism. 



NEW DEMANDS ON MISSIONARIES 233 

idealism which must characterize God's ambassador to 
reHgiously minded men with the practicaHty which will 
face the varied problems of the future and master them in 
manful fashion. Such a missionary can become in turn 
a valued friend, a community leader, a healer of diseased 
conditions, an advance agent of civilization, an emanci- 
pator from age-long evils, a minister of Christ, an inter- 
preter of religion, a maker of peace, a builder of nation- 
ality, and a forerunner of democracy. Far from being 
displaced by the war, he has been given a larger function. 



CHAPTER XVII 

RECONSIDERATION OF MISSIONARY 

METHODS IN THE LIGHT OF 

THE NEW SITUATION 

Some foreign mission fields lying within the war zone 
have been immediately and profoundly affected by the 
war; others have been so remote from the direct influ- 
ence of the war as to remain almost untouched by imme- 
diate contacts. But when changes due to new conditions 
are being effected in all other activities, no mission field 
in any part of the world can hope to escape change in 
mission methods. Since the world's mission fields so 
differ with reference to their proximity to the war zones, 
and since neither missions nor mission boards have yet 
had time to readjust their thinking clearly to new condi- 
tions, any treatment of the subject of the reconsideration 
of missionary methods must be general in its character 
and deal largely with the broadest principles. 

Missionary methods will be modified at the following 
points at least : 

I. Interpreting the Missionary Message 

The war has emphasized the fact that the missionary 
message must be essentially spiritual. Life and thought 
need to be readjusted to the law of God. The Gospel of 
Jesus Christ brings to the world the divine power neces- 
sary to this adjustment. Human efforts to secure this 
result have failed. A confused and shattered world can- 
not afford to experiment when it is possible for it to deal 
with certainties, and it is ready as never before to permit 
a demonstration of the power of the Spirit of God to 



RECONSIDERATION OF METHODS 235 

effect changes in the lives both of individuals and of 
communities. 

Not only must the interpretation of the message be dis- 
tinctly spiritual, but it must be clearly unified. The gos- 
pel message is more than a bare announcement of doc- 
trine or the declaration of a creed ; it is the manifestation 
of a life. Missionaries are sent not only to speak, but to 
be and to do. The missionary is not only the messenger, 
but he is the message. Non-Christian soldiers have come 
out of some mission fields to gain a wholly new concep- 
tion of Christianity through their experiences in the war. 
In their own land they had known this religion as a sys- 
tem of truth which the missionaries were attempting to 
substitute for the native beliefs. At the front they saw 
it in action, through men and women wholly engaged in 
unselfish service. Back in their villages they had heard 
formulas of Christianity, but here they saw it in the 
laboratory. This is not a reflection on the self-sacrificing 
service that has been performed by missionaries. It is 
only a note of emphasis upon the necessity for so unify- 
ing the gospel message that all the blessings of the life of 
Christ may flow through missions into the lives of those 
who are being evangelized. No part of the message, 
evangelistic, educational, medical, or social, ought ever to 
be considered complete apart from all the other parts, 
nor one part emphasized at the expense of any other part. 

II. The Delivery of the Message 

The war has taught clearly the value of attention to 
the method of "delivering" in such a manner as to elimi- 
nate waste and insure maximum results from every opera- 
tion. Mission forces cannot afford to overlook what has 
been attained along this line in military and civil organi- 
zations during the war. 

1. Evangelism. 

Attention has been called to the fact that in the war 
work oral propaganda was a powerful and effective 



236 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

method of publicity. In recent years there has been a 
tendency in most mission fields to substitute, to a greater 
or less extent, other methods or forms of missionary ac- 
tivity for direct preaching of the gospel message. The 
large results obtained through oral address and personal 
appeal during the war work campaigns should reaffirm 
the belief of the missionary in the wisdom of his Lord 
who sent him forth to "preach the Gospel" and to "wit- 
ness." A close study of this subject could scarcely fail 
to bring about a revival in the mission field of the direct 
preaching of the Gospel as the prime method of approach 
to the people. 

Great new lessons may also be learned from the use 
of the printed page and of pictures and posters during 
the war — lessons so important that they are given detailed 
treatment in a succeeding chapter.^ Undreamed-of re- 
sults could be obtained if Christian forces were as com- 
pletely organized for the teaching of the individual as 
were the campaign forces in the war work. So thoroughly 
was this work done that rarely could a man say that he 
did not respond to his country's call because he did not 
know, or had not been asked. 

2. Education. 

While the changes in methods of missionary education 
will vary greatly in different fields, it may be said that 
invariably the modifications will be towards higher stan- 
dards. In most fields such modifications must be rapid 
and radical. The governments of mission lands are deeply 
concerned about this matter of education. The Govern- 
ment of India is conducting a thorough review of the 
educational situation in that country. A commission com- 
posed of British and Indian representatives has been in 
America visiting certain institutions, and is proceeding to 
India to make representation to the Government after 



1 Chapter XVIII, 'The War and the Literary Aspects of 
Missions." 



RECONSIDERATION OF METHODS 237 

having thoroughly studied the subject there. Before the 
war there was a proposal among leaders in China to have 
a deputation of outstanding Christian men from America 
visit China with a view, among other things, to making 
recommendations with reference to the educational situa- 
tion. The territories that are passing from the control 
of one power to another as a result of the war will have 
a readjustment of their educational poHcies. These 
changes are not wholly in the future but are already tak- 
ing place. In some cases the changes effected or pro- 
posed radically affect the opportunities or methods of im- 
parting religious instruction in the schools. 

The situation calls for a decided facing of the facts 
on the part of the societies concerned. It calls for a clear 
and definite statement of the functions and objects of a 
mission school. There must be safeguarded the rights of 
the school to impart instruction so vitally Christian as to 
serve in the training of the youth of the Christian com- 
munity, and so positive as adequately to set the Gospel 
before non-Christians. 

In a review of the educational situation by mission 
bodies the matter of the varieties of instruction to be 
afforded must receive considerable attention. It is no 
longer possible to satisfy the demands and the needs by 
supplying a single type of school, expecting it to turn out 
boys trained and equipped for life in any sphere. Mis- 
sions must be ready to supply the new demand for indus- 
trial, technical, and professional training such as will 
prepare men for the more highly organized life in those 
lands today. 

Wherever there is government control with a govern- 
ment standard, the mission system must be made to equal 
or approximate that standard. For too long in most 
fields the mission school has continued to be a bare occa- 
sion for the teaching of Christian truth. If vital Chris- 
tian truth is not imparted, the school should not exist 
under the name of mission school. But while imparting 



238 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

vital Christian truth the mission school cannot afford to 
conduct its departments of secular instruction according 
to any but the highest standards. A low grade of school 
with slipshod methods of instruction and inadequate 
equipment will recommend but weakly the religious teach- 
ing of which it is the medium. 

In probably every mission there must be a very 
marked advance in the material equipment. The war has 
made manifest the possibilities for service of institutions 
that are adequately equipped and the possibility of secur- 
ing such institutions where they are needed. The war 
has shown that where thousands of dollars have been 
appropriated in the past for poorly equipped and ineffi- 
cient institutions, tens of thousands are available to pro- 
vide ones well equipped and efficient. It has also proved 
that it pays well to be lavish in expenditure for the train- 
ing of leaders. New ideals for educational systems have 
opened new possibilities for service such as may be a 
challenge to the best type of men. 

The interchange of representatives of the Allied coun- 
tries during the war suggests the great significance that 
a similar plan of interchange of deputations of Christians 
between American and non-Christian countries might 
have for the cause of missions. Already deputations are 
organized for the study of the educational needs of 
several of the mission fields and the situation with refer- 
ence to the education of women. These deputations will 
doubtless be followed by others from America and 
Europe. It has been suggested that special attention 
should be given also to securing delegations of Oriental 
Christians to this country. Much might be accomplished 
by such interchange of deputations in many departments 
of the work, but particularly in the educational depart- 
ment. 

3. Medical Work. 

The lessons we have learned from the medical corps 



RECONSIDERATION OF METHODS 239 

of the army as to the primary importance of sanitation 
and preventive rather than remedial measures suggest 
to medical missions the desirability of directing its efforts 
not simply to hospital work but also to measures for com- 
bating the prevalent plagues and epidemics in Eastern 
lands. While much of this work must be carried on with 
difficulty, as it so generally crosses the customs and pre- 
judices of the people, it is certainly a great part of giving 
the medical message in its fulness to the non-Christian 
world. 

All that has been said above with reference to the im- 
portance of material equipment and staff for educational 
institutions must be recognized as equally true for hospi- 
tals and dispensaries. Medical work, again, like educa- 
tional, must be looked upon, not simply as an adjunct to 
missionary work, but as a vital part of the missionary 
message. 

4. Social Service. 

The war has revealed what great things are possible 
in helping men through social contacts. Perhaps more 
that will be of service to the Christian worker among 
foreign people may be learned from this than from any 
other line of war activity. 

Not only is it desirable that there should be an exten- 
sion in mission work of such methods of reaching men as 
those used by the Y. M. C. A. and kindred organizations 
during the war, but it is necessary that in the adopting 
of such methods they should be adapted to the conditions 
and needs of the people among whom they are being 
applied. There is a call for real ingenuity on the part of 
those seeking to introduce such methods into mission 
work. In many cities the great increase in the industrial 
population and the rising self-consciousness of labor 
present an almost unparalleled opportunity for Christian 
social service. 

The setting of such social methods into operation seems 



240 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

to be particularly challenging and promising among the 
women of Oriental lands. Here women are coming into 
a new heritage and need to be taught much concerning 
the wise use of their new liberty. Further, with the new 
freedom and desire for social contacts, they are going to 
find centers of social life somewhere. It is our oppor- 
tunity to afford such centers in the Christian Church, and 
that at the very time when the character of their future 
social relationships is in a formative stage. During the 
war some of the women missionaries in India found an 
excellent opportunity to form groups of women of dif- 
ferent religions to undertake together the various sorts 
of war work. Such methods may easily be applied along 
lines of social service. 

Not only has the war revealed what can be done by 
approaching men through social relations, but it has em- 
phasized in the minds of many the potential equality of 
races. It should no longer be possible for the Christian 
missionary in any land to take the position that he is 
racially superior to those whom he is attempting to reach 
with his gospel message. This doctrine of democracy, 
which has become so widely disseminated throughout the 
world, must drive the missionary to find some method of 
interpreting and applying the Gospel that will prove to 
those to whom he preaches that he does not regard him- 
self a member of a conquering race, but that he is a ser- 
vant of the "Servant of Men." 

III. The Development of the Indigenous Church 

On every hand are being emphasized the rights of peo- 
ples to determine their own forms of government and 
development. More than ever it will be necessary for the 
missionary to adopt such methods as will enable him to 
render the highest aid to the growing Church, without 
interfering with its liberty in directing its own affairs and 
in assuming its own responsibilities. 

In some lands the situation between certain missions 



RECONSIDERATION OF METHODS 241 

and the indigenous churches they had planted had already 
become acute before the war and radical readjustment 
had been effected. Now in almost every mission field in 
the Near East and Far East and in parts of Africa the 
spirit of nationalism is manifesting itself in a sensitive- 
ness with reference to the relations between the foreign 
missions and the indigenous Church. At this point the 
missionary has an opportunity to make an invaluable con- 
tribution to the adjustment of the peoples of the East to 
permanent foundations of democracy. The missionary 
is of course obligated to teach loyalty to the existing gov- 
ernment. But whatever his political beliefs may be, and 
whatever his attitude toward the nationalist movements, 
he has an opportunity of granting to the Church the larg- 
est possible autonomy, demonstrating the fact that the 
Church is seeking no temporal power and has no political 
objective. He has the opportunity to adopt such methods 
in the development of the Church as will enable native 
Christian thinkers to work out for themselves the appli- 
cation of the Scripture teachings concerning democracy 
and to apply them, when sanely worked out, to their own 
institutions. Such a method gives answer to the Brahmin 
who said, "Yes, India wants your Christ, but it will have 
none of your Christianity." It brings to him the Christ, 
with entire freedom to follow His teachings while build- 
ing up an indigenous Christian social order, and develop- 
ing a political system adapted to new world conditions. 

IV. Administration 

1. Thorough Surveys of the Fields. 

The Church has found during the war that it has abun- 
dant material resources to enable it to go in and evan- 
gelize the world now. It is the duty of each board and 
each mission to discover just what the needs of its fields 
are and to state them so definitely and simply as to make 
possible a detailed campaign for the occupation of the 
fields. Only through such a process of survey may a 



242 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

mission or a board hope to escape disastrous mistakes in 
the distribution of men and in the placing of institutions. 
Such a survey must have a pronounced effect upon the 
selection, training, and distribution of missionaries. It 
will immediately increase the confidence with which both 
board and mission will go forward with the work of ex- 
pansion and occupation. 

2. The Distribution of Missionaries. 

New conditions in the field demand new methods in the 
selection and distribution of missionaries by mission 
boards. The needs in the field must be specifically stated 
and men then sent definitely to fill them. The call from 
the field must be so specific as to enable the board to 
select and send out men specially prepared for the partic- 
ular line of work. 

3. Cooperation. 

New conditions call insistently for cooperation of 
agencies and unification of effort. The Allied victory 
is an object lesson that missionary forces cannot afford to 
pass over without the most careful study. Few causes 
have tended more to the development of marked indi- 
vidualism than that of foreign missions. The day has 
come when the missionary must be ready to sink his indi- 
vidual notions and interests in the common cause. No 
longer can men afford to think in the terms of little seg- 
ments and divisions of the work. Each man must extend 
his thinking to comprise the whole and the thinking of all 
must be joined for the perfecting of the whole. Men 
must not think in villages or in tribes only, but in con- 
tinents. Some excellent beginnings have been made in 
this respect, but they must be developed by the mission- 
aries of every land. 

Notable among the instances of cooperation that have 
been developed upon a large scale are the organizations 
effected by Dr. Mott in 1912-13 in India, China, and 
Japan. In India was organized the National Missionary 



RECONSIDERATION OF METHODS 243 

Council, a body representative of the societies working 
there. In China and Japan were formed Continuation 
Committees composed of prominent missionaries and 
leaders in the Christian communities. These cooperative 
bodies have been in existence a sufficient length of time to 
afford a demonstration of their value. Although their 
work has but begun, they have already served to do much 
toward establishing uniform standards, eliminating the 
overlapping of efforts, undertaking common tasks, and 
promoting a general feehng of sympathy, good will, and 
mutual confidence. The extension of this system of co- 
operation by the Edinburgh Continuation Committee has 
been interrupted by the war. It is to be hoped that it 
will now be vigorously resumed. 

Not only must this cooperation obtain among the so- 
cieties at work in a given field but between the societies 
and the indigenous Church. A much larger place will be 
taken by native leaders immediately in many lands, and 
it will be a wise mission method that looks to the enlarg- 
ing of that place and adding to its responsibility and 
authority. 

The shortening of world distances, the training of 
American people to world thinking, and increased finan- 
cial resources should make possible also a much freer 
interplay of the forces at the home base and those on the 
field. To secure the best results there must be adequate 
and frequent visitation on the part of home administra- 
tive officers and there must be some form of true repre- 
sentation of the forces in the field constantly in personal 
touch with the home board. 

4. Finances. 

There should be a new method in estimating. It should 
take into account, not the amount that has been received 
in the past nor what may be expected from a given con- 
stituency, but the actual needs in the field to carry on the 
work efficiently. Only in this way can a mission or a 



244 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

board hope to get before the Church at home a knowl- 
edge of the real need. This method should be followed 
until the limits of the power of the Church at home to 
give have been reached. 

In expenditure, more money should go to substantial 
advance and less to experiment. This may be accom- 
plished by a careful and comprehensive study of what has 
been done by different missions along given Hues of ex- 
penditure. There is waste in continually training men 
by experiment when experiments have already been made 
and men already trained. All knowledge gained by any 
mission should be made available for every mission, and 
experts should be developed in every mission where 
economy could be thus effected. 

Accounting must be made more carefully than ever. 
In view of the great funds that are being spent and the 
vast increase of such funds that is likely to take place 
soon, too scrupulous attention cannot be given to insuring 
such accounting as will secure the greatest possible confi- 
dence in the minds of those who contribute. A cheap 
method of accounting may not be an economical one. Any 
system that is necessary to insure confidence cannot be 
too expensive. 

5. The Use of Furloughs. 

The way in which officers were brought back from 
France to train recruits and stimulate public interest sug- 
gests the potential value of the missionary furlough. 

Some method for the use of the furlough should speed- 
ily be discovered that will eliminate the waste to the work 
that now results from the use or abuse of most furloughs. 
There should be adequate provision for the physical ex- 
amination of the missionary and for any medical treat- 
ment that may be necessary. There should be such 
provision made for a home for the missionary as to re- 
lieve him of the embarrassment of living with relatives 
or burdening himself with debt while in this country. 



RECONSIDERATION OF METHODS 245 

There should be well wrought out plans for training the 
furloughed missionary in deputational work. There 
should be provision made for utilizing his service in the 
best way possible in cultivating the home Church. There 
should be available the best advice procurable as to what 
line of study he should follow while at home and funds 
to enable him to take up the most helpful courses. A 
method that will insure proper use of furloughs will in- 
crease the personal power of the missionary, prepare him 
for larger usefulness on his return to the field, and enable 
him to intensify the interest of the Church at home in the 
cause of missions. 

V. A General "Speeding Up" 

What after-war conditions seem to call for most in- 
sistently is a method of general "speeding up" in every 
department and operation. The war has opened up un- 
dreamed-of opportunities. It has discovered untold re- 
sources. It has put at the disposal of the Church new 
machinery and new methods. The time has come for 
immediate and boundless expansion. The world is mov- 
ing at a tremendous speed and the forces of missions 
must be ready to keep pace with unwavering faith, un- 
daunted courage, unflagging zeal, and untiring patience. 

A "speeding up" on the field will not be easy of accom- 
plishment. Most mission fields lie in lands where the law 
of tradition is stronger than the moral law. The whole 
atmosphere is one of conservatism and almost invariably 
has its reaction on the missionary who is surrounded by 
it. Mission methods, mission rules, ecclesiastical forms 
and usages have been wrought out in fierce fires of experi- 
ence. They have been proved good and serviceable. It is 
only for the ones who have made them and proved them, 
to realize that a new day may come with new situations, 
new demands, and new perils, and that for such a day 
there must be new methods and new codes. It is the 
bounden duty of every board or society at home to keep 



246 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

its missionaries informed as to progress in every field 
and to watch for the opportunity to cooperate in any 
advance suggested by a mission. 

Ten years ago the proper method for the itinerating 
missionary in some districts was to Uve in a tent trans- 
ported from place to place by means of camels, at the 
rate of two and one-half miles an hour. Today in those 
same districts itinerating is accomplished with a light 
motor car, traveling ten times as fast as the camels and 
enabling the missionary to do considerably more than 
twice as much as he could by the old method, also to do it 
better and with less hardship and fatigue to himself. 
This case of "speeding up" adds to the budget demanded 
of the home Church, but everyone acquainted with the 
facts will recognize it as the true economy. It is only 
an example of what is called for all along the line. 

Finally, let us recognize that it is the missionaries on 
the field who must reconstruct missionary methods, 
evolving such as will serve the new day. It is for the 
Church at home to cooperate to the utmost of its powers 
in making these methods possible and effective. 



CHAPTER XVIII 

THE WAR AND THE LITERARY ASPECTS 
OF MISSIONS 

The most striking contribution of the war to the liter- 
ary outlook of religion comes from the recognition of 
the printed word as a major factor in winning the war. 
Incredible quantities of printed matter were issued and 
incredible pains spent in preparing and placing it. Every 
form was used: newspapers and periodicals, books, 
pamphlets, posters, and films ; and every method of pub- 
lication : sale, gift, loan, book trade, post office, libraries, 
colporteurs, and merchandise delivery. Aeroplane dis- 
tribution of tracts to affect enemy morale was the most 
picturesque form, and posters one of the most obvious 
and most effective. 

Verbal methods of beginning and ending war, of keep- 
ing up the civilian war spirit, and even of conducting 
military operations, were, of course, no new thing. Ver- 
bal attacks upon enemy nerve were practised at Megiddo 
and at Troy by hurling threats and boasts orally across 
walls or spaces too wide for javelins. Printed aids to 
recruiting and other war purposes have also been used 
in all modern wars, as has also censorship, which is sim- 
ply the negative aspect of printed propaganda. What was 
new in this propaganda was, first, the conscious recogni- 
tion of the fact that verbal methods of changing and 
strengthening men's minds are a direct factor in practical 
affairs ; and, second, the like recognition of the fact that 
operations had now outgrown merely oral methods alto- 
gether and depended largely upon print. By organized 
methods, such as the four-minute men and the war-aims 
Chautauqua, large numbers were still reached orally, but 



248 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

these were only a drop in the bucket compared with the 
vast number of persons, soldier and civilian, now in- 
volved. Where millions were concerned in former wars, 
billions were concerned in this. Moreover, the essence 
of propaganda is in the repetition of impression — ^the 
insistent use of words to induce hostile or sluggish men 
to change their attitude and join in an achievement. It 
was alleged that one Liberty Bond drive was organized 
on the basis of insuring that every business man, on his 
way to business each day, should meet the invitation to 
buy thirty-four times and in as many different forms. 
Only print could meet this situation. 

The significance of all this for the religious outlook, 
and especially for foreign missions, lies in the fact that 
Christianity is itself a propaganda and foreign missions 
the aspect of it that is aimed at every individual in the 
world. 

The method of Christian propaganda as of all propa- 
ganda is words — ^the method of peaceful revolution 
through the use of words to change men's minds. This 
Jesus set forth not as a figure, but as a fact : the words 
that He speaks are spirit and life. The natural law, 
which is the key to human nature as evolution is of living 
nature or gravitation of lifeless nature, is the law of 
verbal communication. The word is obviously the in- 
visible tie which binds persons together, the means by 
which all social groups are formed or maintained. 
Modern sociology notes that this is true by virtue of the 
fact that it establishes like-mindedness. The word is the 
inevitable instrument of like-mindedness, the object 
which has been evolved for the purpose of producing it. 
The word and like-mindedness are aspects of the same 
matter. The word is man's chief distinction from the 
brute, and makes possible the more highly organized 
group, namely, society. Man, in short, is man because 
he is social and he is social because verbal. The word 
makes the difference between the pack and society. 



LITERARY ASPECTS OF MISSIONS 249 

The significance of the printed word in Christian 
propaganda Hes, first, in the fact that as a world mission 
Christianity aims to reach every person on earth ; second, 
in the fact that the task requires repeated impression; 
and, possibly above all, in the fact that by its fixed form 
it furnishes a far more exact like-mindedness than is 
possible to oral tradition, which tends to rapid variation. 
It may fairly be said that the chief hope that the nations 
may yet come to one mind as to living together in freedom 
and peace, cooperating in good faith, is the fact that the 
Person of Jesus Christ has a fixed form of expression in 
the printed New Testament. 

The printed word is essential in matters of social 
change involving many persons because oral methods 
soon break down with numbers. Print is the natural 
and only method of dealing with a very large number of 
minds. In a world movement oral and written methods 
are insufficient. It is probable that the present work of 
missions falls short at no point so much as at this. 

In the application of print to the problem of uniting 
all mankind in the commonwealth of God, under the 
headship of Jesus Christ, the problem divides itself into 
literature for Christians and non-Christians, for home 
missions and foreign missions. Under foreign missions 
it divides again, as in the war, into literature for home 
activities and literature for overseas work. The home 
problem of foreign missions involves getting and keeping 
general interest in the work, recruiting for the field, train- 
ing missionary workers, missionary research. The for- 
eign problem involves keeping up the missionary morale, 
the work of conversion, and au5ciHary work, such as 
schools and medical and social work. 

All these matters have their special literary needs, but 
the elements of the problem are similar in all and concern 
first, material; second, authorship; third, multiplication 
of copies ; fourth, distribution to users ; and fifth, getting 
the material read with interest. 



250 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

I. Material 

The material for the foreign field is fundamentally, 
chiefly, and always the Bible and books to interest in and 
explain its teachings. Following this, and especially since 
the war, there is need of a literature on live social, 
economic, and political matters, fearless, straight, and 
written with a direct view to the teaching of Jesus Christ. 
Again, there is a demand for literature of the more popu- 
lar kind, such as fiction and poetry, with a Christian 
atmosphere. 

For home use the material used is chiefly inspirational 
or instructional for the sake of inspiration, and the chief 
weakness of present methods Hes in forgetting the dis- 
tinction between inspiration and education, learning, 
scholarship, or research. There is a large modern de- 
mand for the right kind of educational literature for mis- 
sion study classes, a matter which has been more or less 
attended to by the Missionary Education Movement, but 
which should be more definitely considered by missionary 
agencies on the side of propaganda. 

In the home field, too, there is a need for fiction and 
poetry that present a definitely Christian point of view. 
The plain fact is that the bulk of the literature which 
forms the customary reading of society does not repre- 
sent religion as it is lived in Christian society. This fact 
reacts on the foreign field. Sunday school books have 
been failures in meeting this situation, as regards non- 
Christian readers, on account of their low average liter- 
ary quality, although very valuable indeed for conserving 
Christian atmosphere. 

Another line of publications, which, though of lesser 
range, is of the utmost importance, is textbooks for mis- 
sionaries adapted to the special work of the particular 
fields, as well as to the work in general — for example, 
to the linguistic, economic, social, political, and hygienic 
conditions of the various fields. 



LITERARY ASPECTS OF MISSIONS 251 

II. Authorship 

There is a repeated demand from the missionary field 
for the best brains and learning in the task of authorship. 
This is in the line of war experience, where the very- 
highest quality was volunteered and used. Emphasis 
needs to be laid on securing writers who are trained in a 
sympathetic knowledge of the literatures, as well as the 
languages, of the countries to be reached, and who have 
ability to adapt themselves to the manner of thought of 
the natives and to graded needs. 

This calls for those who study the art of writing as an 
art, students of native journalism, students of the art 
of fiction, poetry, and style in general, and especially 
native writers. It is only through the agency of native 
authors that we shall ever produce an adequate or effec- 
tive indigenous literature, yet it is in this aspect of mis- 
sionary work that, in some countries at least, the influ- 
ence of the native Church is smallest. The best guides 
in this whole matter are the various surveys of Christian 
literature for various fields, now in progress or com- 
pleted. 

III. Multiplication of Copies 

From the standpoint of Christianity as a propaganda, 
the printing press is the key to the problem of world 
organization in the Person of Jesus Christ. For practical 
mission purposes the press includes all forms of duplica- 
tion or multiplication of copies, mimeographs, photo- 
stats, and the like, as well as the printing press. 

The problem of printing concerns both speed and ap- 
pearance. Many missionary reports lay stress on the 
need of attention to mechanical details of type and paper, 
make-up, margins, and even to the smell of ink. It is well 
known by librarians and booksellers that in the effort 
to get readers the appearance of a book often makes 
a great difference. Expert attention is therefore called 
for as to matters of economy and appearance. A first- 



352 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

class traveling expert who could give counsel to the vari- 
ous printing agencies on the field would save much and 
add much. 

IV. Distribution of Publications 

There are three chief methods for getting literature 
to readers : sale, gift, and loan. The characteristic instru- 
ments corresponding to these are the book shop, the post 
office, and the library. The method of gift has been dep- 
recated. Most missionaries favor sale over gift. On 
the other hand, sale has its risk of a suspicion of at- 
tempted gain — as the Y. M. C. A. experience in France 
shows. Somew^here between sale and gift comes the 
library, which, in lending, gives ideas, but not material. 

It is strongly to be questioned, in the light of war 
experience, whether the policy against free distribution 
of religious literature should not be definitely recon- 
sidered. War propaganda made unlimited use of such 
distribution. Promoters of mining stock and other doubt- 
ful investments find the method incredibly effective. The 
fact is that the post office has become the great world 
organizer by affording a secure method for the exchange 
of verbal communications. As free distribution is ad- 
mittedly a very expensive method, particular care should 
be taken to make the literature distributed as effective 
as possible. Nothing could be more Avasteful than cir- 
culating freely material which is not attractive enough 
to be read. 

In the matter of sales something could probably be 
done to secure an increase through an expert inspector 
and adviser of native bookstores and the use of coopera- 
tive methods at home. The best way of increasing sales, 
however, is to produce literature of intrinsic value which 
will be purchased by those who are potentially interested. 
Enough experiments have already been made to show 
that propagandist literature can be circulated so as to 
maintain itself financially. The best minds need to be 



LITERARY ASPECTS OF MISSIONS 253 

put at this task. Literature for free distribution is got- 
ten out at great cost to the producer ; Hterature for sale 
which is not satisfactory is not only costly to the con- 
sumer but ultimately hinders the sale of really valuable 
contributions. 

The factor of libraries appears, from a study of re- 
ports and the indexes to missionary periodicals, to be the 
most neglected of all factors of distribution. In secular 
educational work at the present time this factor is recog- 
nized and used on an enormous scale. Schools of all 
grades are provided with appropriate libraries and much 
organized attention is given to them. Every village is 
supposed to have its public library to aid the schools and, 
more especially, to afford continuous opportunity for 
growth to those over school age. This function is also 
recognized, more or less, in ordinary religious education 
at home, in the various aspects of the religious education 
of the layman, the training of religious teachers, preach- 
ers, and missionaries, and the training in theological 
learning and missionary research, but these libraries, on 
the whole, fall far behind the secular library in their 
equipment, methods, and general efficiency. This is par- 
ticularly true of the missionary aspects of these libraries 
and the special missionary libraries, which are hardly 
more than a symbol of what might and should be done. 
This statement, however, applies not so much to the books 
available, or the efficiency of what staff there is, as to 
the means of making the books available as compared 
with secular libraries. An overwhelming improvement is 
called for in this matter all along the line of lay educa- 
tion, ministerial training, missionary training, and re- 
search. 

In the foreign field the case is still worse. A few book- 
rooms are listed in the tables of statistics, and every now 
and then some individual missionary is found pleading 
or working for a library in Persia, or in Siam, or else- 
where, but, while there are many organized presses and 



254 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

organized societies for printing, and selling, and even giv- 
ing away literature, there seems to be no systematic effort 
in this direction of libraries. The nature of the case calls 
for the eventual establishment of lending libraries of 
Christian literature in every village of the world — noth- 
ing less. 

War experience suggests, too, once more, the possi- 
bilities of poster propaganda — a method certainly used by 
the enemies of Christianity, notably in Boxer days, but 
looked at askance in general by Christian workers. The 
effectiveness of the war posters, however, was so unmis- 
takable that we need to inquire whether we ought not to 
make a more extensive use of the methods that appeal to 
the eye. Here a field lies open, almost unentered, before 
the Christian artist and cartoonist. 

The poster, however, requires special talent and is so 
costly that it is of little use to attempt propaganda by 
this means unless there are funds sufficient to carry it on 
in an extensive way. Timidity in spending for poster 
publicity is worse than useless. Furthermore, this propa- 
ganda must spring from intimate knowledge of the men- 
tality of those for whom it is designed and must in a 
true sense spring from the people. A foreigner can hardly 
know a language well enough to put his ideas effectively 
into poster form. 

V. Getting Literature Read 

This problem is one with which the modern library, 
bookseller, and teaching world are wrestling, more or less 
successfully, through methods of advertising, the prepa- 
ration of select and annotated lists, and other devices. 
Some work in this direction has been done by the reli- 
gious education movement, and through such lists as 
those prepared by the Committee on the War and the 
Religious Outlook in its Bibliography on the War and 
Religion, but, on the whole, this field is undeveloped. 



LITERARY ASPECTS OF MISSIONS 255 

Negative propaganda or censorship was applied dur- 
ing the war more generally, effectively, and unscrupu- 
lously than ever before in the modern history of mankind. 
The world has learned as never before how to suppress 
information and mislead impressions, while it is still true 
that such suppression and misleading is the greatest men- 
ace to the human soul and human liberty. The supreme 
offense against human society is this "taking away the 
keys of knowledge" and "holding down the truth in un- 
righteousness." This lesson learned in the war is already 
being applied in missionary lands and missionary opera- 
tions are seriously threatened by it. 

One of the most significant aspects of the whole matter 
of the use of literature in bringing in the Kingdom of 
Christ is that it lends itself to cooperation better than 
almost any other aspect of missionary work. There 
might well be: 

1. Cooperation in authorship. 

2. Cooperation in the organized supervision of print- 
ing and bookselling methods. 

3. Cooperation, on a great scale, in distribution. 

4. Cooperation among libraries of theological re- 
search. 

5. Cooperative effort to modernize practice in the 
matter of libraries in English for missionaries and mis- 
sionary converts and to secure vernacular public libraries 
and reading rooms. 

6. Cooperation of Bible, tract, and literature societies 
for the organization of a definite, world-wide propaganda 
of literature. 

7. Cooperation in literary propaganda for special reli- 
gious activities of a non-sectarian character, for example, 
united prayer. 



CHAPTER XIX 

MISSIQNS AND AMERICAN BUSINESS AND 
PROFESSIONAL MEN ABROAD 

It has long been recognized that the character, inter- 
ests, and activities of Western business and professional 
men in the Orient have a great effect, either for good or 
for ill, upon the success of the missionary enterprise. 
This subject, already so important, is likely to become 
increasingly so in the near future because of the great 
trade expansion which seems imminent after the war. 

The subject has two aspects, both of which we shall 
do well to consider — the efforts which may be made in the 
various countries to bring both business and professional 
men into sympathetic contact with the missionaries with 
a view to improving existing relations, and the efforts 
which may be made at the home base to give American 
business and professional men, before they leave Amer- 
ica, a sympathetic understanding of the objectives of 
Christian missions. 

I. On the Field 

In spite of the gulf that often has existed between the 
missionaries on the one hand and American business and 
professional men in the various mission fields on the 
other, we need to recognize that there are certain factors 
which in some centers at least are bringing the two groups 
together. Where they are being brought together in 
other ways than through chance friendships it is gener- 
ally one of the following agencies which is responsible: 
the foreign churches which have been established in such 
cities as Manila, Tokyo, Shanghai, and the larger port 
cities of the world and in some other commercial centers : 



MISSIONS AND BUSINESS MEN 257 

private schools where the children of all foreigners may 
be educated together, such as now exist in Shanghai and 
Tokyo; clubs and other social organizations; military 
training squads, as in Peking; business transactions. It 
is, of course, obvious that such facilities for personal 
contact are uncommon and perhaps even impossible ex- 
cept in the larger centers of population. 

The American missionary bodies will do well to recog- 
nize the union church and the private school under Chris- 
tian leadership as most important helps to missionary 
work. They offer the most favorable meeting ground 
for all classes of foreigners and go far toward uniting 
otherwise separated groups in a common interest and 
helping them to appreciate one another. Such churches 
and schools also afford invaluable demonstrations in the 
non-Christian world of the character and quality of 
Christian religious and educational ideals. Without such 
demonstrations, or with the religious and even ethical 
indifference which often results from the lack of such 
institutions, the missionary is severely handicapped in 
his work. The necessity of extending and greatly 
strengthening both the union church and the schools for 
foreign children cannot be overemphasized. 

If there is to be a mutual understanding and helpful- 
ness between the missionaries and other groups of their 
fellow-countrymen in the Orient, it is obvious that they 
must mingle in social intercourse. The„misunderstanding 
between them has been due not only to the business man's 
lack of contacts with missions, but also to his lack of 
contacts even with the missionaries in ordinary ways. 
The social life of foreigners, including many of the mis- 
sionaries, is very well developed in some of the larger 
cities of Asia, yet leaves much to be desired almost every- 
where. Even where facilities for social intercourse exist, 
the missionary is usually restrained from participating 
in them by lack of financial ability. Social life in foreign 
cities, even when acceptable from a moral point of view, 



258 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

is usually conducted on a scale of expense which puts 
participation in it quite beyond the reach of most mission- 
aries. Increased salaries for missionaries and increased 
allowances for use in entertaining other foreigners are 
very essential to the promotion of a desirable social life 
in foreign colonies in the non-Christian world. 

In almost all foreign communities where both mission- 
aries and other foreigners live there are factions both of 
the missionary and the non-missionary groups between 
whom mutual understanding and sympathy are all but 
impossible. The character and habits of life of some 
foreigners in non-Christian lands are such as to exclude 
them from wholesome, self-respecting social life. The 
missionaries rightly regard such countrymen as a serious 
handicap to the extension of Christianity, and the latter, 
possibly, feel that the missionaries' presence is a standing 
reproach and a protest against their manner of living. 
On the other hand, some missionaries have not been 
selected with so much care as to cultural qualifications as 
are many business men. As a result, mutual distrust and 
antipathy exist, which will disappear as the quality of 
both business man and missionary is improved by more 
careful selection. 

The business contacts of the missionary with the other 
members of the foreign community are almost without 
exception good and should be most carefully guarded. 
It is obvious, of course, that acceptable standards of 
business practice in Western commercial houses in the 
East are absolutely essential to the largest success of mis- 
sionary work. It may not be amiss to point out also that 
too much care cannot be exercised in conducting the busi- 
ness affairs of the mission in a thoroughly businesslike 
fashion. 

It would be unfair to ignore the fact that in very many 
cases individual business and professional men are now 
rendering great help to the missionaries, both by personal 
and by financial support, and it will be recalled that at 



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the outbreak of the war several very large American 
commercial organizations rendered invaluable assistance 
to the missionaries and to mission boards by offering 
commercial credits and even the necessities of life when, 
for the time being, the credit organization of the world 
was nearly paralyzed. Nor ought one to ignore the 
friendly interest and unofficial assistance rendered to 
the missionary work by numberless consular and diplo- 
matic officials. 

There is a very large and almost unexplored field of 
cooperation between the missionary and commercial 
agencies in non-Christian lands which, while possible, is 
exposed to the very grave danger that missionary work 
might acquire a commercial motive or might at least 
appear to be commercialized. The missionary, in helping 
a community to achieve new standards of living, is Hke- 
wise creating new markets. Not infrequently the mis- 
sionary finds that in his efforts to lift the economic status 
of his converts he is very greatly assisted by the intro- 
duction of devices, machinery, and other products of 
Western industrial life. The work of the missionary 
would be greatly facilitated if the non-Christian world 
could be introduced to many forms of labor-saving ma- 
chinery, electrical devices, agricultural instruments and 
practices, sanitation, facilities for transportation and 
communication, etc., which it is the business of the com- 
mercial representative to promote. The general princi- 
ples upon which more extended cooperation along these 
lines should proceed, in such a way as not to expose 
the missionary work in fact or even in appearance to the 
charge of personal or nationalistic selfish motives, have 
yet to be worked out. Such questions must at present be 
settled on their merits in individual cases. The way for 
full cooperation would become easy if only the business 
world would definitely accept the Christian doctrine that 
industry and commerce must be conducted primarily not 
for profit but as forms of service for human welfare. 



260 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

Both the missionary and the non-missionary resident 
in non-Christian lands have usually taken with them from 
America notions of the separation of evangelism from 
commerce and industry which are incorrect and are a 
great handicap to the establishment of the most helpful 
relations in the lands to which they go. The missionary 
often has too little understanding of the relation between 
the establishment of self-supporting, self -propagating 
Churches and the lifting of the economic life of the peo- 
ple. The business man, on the other hand, often fails 
to recognize the social significance of the missionary 
work, and the essential part which he himself must have 
in the accomplishment of the missionary purpose. 

II. At the Home Base 

In seeking a solution of this difficulty, are we not led 
directly into that larger and now transcending task of 
defining the purpose of industry and commerce as agen- 
cies of the Kingdom of God? So long as the great body 
of Christian believers in Christian lands tacitly accepts 
the unchristian practice of conducting commerce and in- 
dustry primarily for profit rather than for human service, 
it is all but impossible to relate helpfully to each other 
in non-Christian lands the opposing purposes of the busi- 
ness man and the missionary. If the purpose of the 
extension of foreign trade is to increase the riches of 
America, with primary consideration for the maximum 
of profits and subordinate consideration for the welfare 
of the non-Christian world, the Christian missionary can 
safely have no part nor lot in the purpose of the business 
man. If, on the other hand, both missionary and business 
man enter the non-Christian world with the same broad 
purpose to serve the people and help them to standards 
of higher and more efficient living, then the two may walk 
hand in hand. Both may be missionaries of Christ.^ 



iThis subject is so important that the following chapter is 
devoted to a more detailed consideration of it. 



MISSIONS AND BUSINESS MEN 261 

We are thus faced with another side of what is now 
the largest and most urgent question before the Christian 
world. The answer lies quite beyond the sphere of the 
missionaries on the field, the missionary boards and agen- 
cies of the Church, and also quite beyond the choice of 
the individual business man in a non-Christian land or 
the firm or corporation which he represents. This is a 
matter which concerns the statement of Christian ethics, 
the purpose and practice of the Christian Church. It 
enters vitally into the subject of Christian education in 
the Sunday school, in the pulpit, in the theological semi- 
nary, where both ministers and missionaries are trained. 

Many business men carry to non-Christian lands mis- 
conceptions of, or prejudices against, the work of the 
missionary, which began in an inefficient Sunday school, 
in the defective missionary education of the local church; 
and in the obscure ethical instruction on both economic 
and missionary subjects received from the Christian pul- 
pit. Likewise the missionary goes to his labors insuffi- 
ciently instructed both as to the pitfalls and the advan- 
tages of relating commerce and industry to the work of 
evangelizing the world. Nowhere do the inconsistencies 
and incoherence of our present definitions of the purpose 
of the Kingdom of God and current applications of the 
ethics of Jesus more embarrass us than in our efforts to 
Christianize the non-Christian world. 

A full discussion of this subject is not possible here, 
but certain broad recommendations may be made with 
reference to the special problems presented above. 

1. Prejudice in the United States against missionary 
work should be removed by more adequate missionary 
education and by wider use of the channels of popular 
publicity. There needs to be a complete restatement of 
the missionary purpose, not so much with a view to cor- 
rection as with a view to making it more intelligible to 
the great mass of people. The purpose to evangelize the 
world must be stated in terms which the ordinary man 



262 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

will recognize as practical, useful, and just. There must 
be a general elevation of foreign missions in the estima- 
tion of the American people to a dignity and importance 
that business men will realize before they go abroad. 

2. Frequent contacts should be created between the 
foreign trade agencies of the country and the missionary 
bodies. Conferences between these two sets of agencies 
would be productive of much good in raising the stan- 
dards of both commercial and missionary personnel and 
practice. Missionaries newly recruited for the field 
should have the maximum of opportunity to meet those 
engaged in the export trade, for the mutual benefit which 
would be derived. Opportunities should be sought by 
missionary leaders to lecture to training schools where 
foreign trade representatives are being trained before 
being sent out to their work. 

3. The moral character of the business and profes- 
sional men abroad is the largest factor in determining 
whether Western trade will help or hurt foreign missions. 
The ministers of American churches ought to see to it 
that the members of their churches who are engaged in 
the export trade or in foreign commerce of any sort 
fully appreciate the great responsibilities which rest upon 
them for the securing of such representatives of Ameri- 
can life in non-Christian lands as will be creditable to 
Christianity and will also be sympathetic with the pur- 
pose to evangelize the non-Christian world. We may 
note with thankfulness encouraging indications that many 
commercial agencies are exercising increasingly greater 
care in the selection and training of their foreign repre- 
sentatives. 



CHAPTER XX 

THE BEARING OF ECONOMICS AND BUSI- 
NESS ON FOREIGN MISSIONS 

Not many years ago the business man, the economist, 
and the missionary were regarded as having very little 
in common. The business man was considered practical 
and hard-headed and lived in the busy mart of trade and 
commerce. The economist was considered theoretical 
and dry as dust. He lived in his study chair and the 
college classroom. The foreign missionary was con- 
sidered slightly crazed. He lived in the land of canni- 
bals. Apparently, they were very far apart. 

The economist saw that he ought to be on terms of 
intimacy with the man of business, but his friendly ad- 
vances were regarded with suspicion, especially in Amer- 
ica. But, as a matter of fact, while the business man 
was regarding the economist as a mere theorist, business 
was being carried on all the time on the theories which 
economics had proclaimed as valid and necessary. And 
lately the business man and the economist have become 
more conscious of their common point of view, so that we 
can safely say that they are becoming not only acquaint- 
ances but bosom friends. This reconciliation was espe- 
cially noticeable during the war. They both went down 
to Washington and rubbed elbows on committee tables, 
to the advantage, let us hope, of both themselves and their 
country. The effect of this friendship is being felt already 
in the colleges and universities. Large corporations 
and other forms of big business are offering the econo- 
mist a much larger salary than the universities can afford 
to pay, so the seats of learning are feeling the shortage in 
the supply of teachers for the classes in economics. 



264 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

Yet what of the foreign missionary and of the relation 
of both the business man and the economist to him? 
However close business and economics may have come 
to a common point of view, it is still true that they and 
foreign missions generally seem poles apart. And the 
business man's attitude toward missions has, as a matter 
of fact, been considerably influenced by the economist. 
Probably the business man himself has not realized this 
fact, for the influence exerted by the economist goes 
back almost 150 years, to the time of Adam Smith, 
known as "the father of all the economists." He taught 
and made orthodox for the coming century the doctrine 
of laissez faire, which means "hands off," let the people 
alone. It rested on the assumption that underneath what 
the business man does there is a natural law which, if 
not interfered with, and under competitive conditions, 
will work out for "the greatest good to the greatest num- 
ber." 

England welcomed his book, "The Wealth of Nations," 
with open arms. One man who was living then said 
about it, "It will persuade the living generation and 
govern the next." This has been true. The idea of 
laissez faire passed into the very center of Anglo-Saxon 
economic thought, and soon it crossed the ocean and be- 
came a fixture in the industrial life of our nation. To 
many American business men, Adam Smith is but a name 
and laissez faire only a French phrase, but the idea for 
which he stood is a part of their life and practice. "Let 
us alone and in producing the greatest amount of profits 
for ourselves we will also be benefiting the community." 
Any idea which has made a big impression on the world 
must have some element of truth in it. We cannot 
appreciate the significance of the doctrine of laissez faire 
without realizing that it represented a great advance over 
the prevailing practice of Adam Smith's day, when Eng- 
land was burdened with stupid restrictive legislation — 
an inheritance from the Middle Ages — ^that cramped 



MISSIONS, ECONOMICS, BUSINESS 265 

and confined the free play of normal business and indus- 
trial intercourse. But when a truer idea is born, the 
older idea dies. It was sheer individualism which Adam 
Smith taught and it is the same individualism which the 
business man has held, up to this decade. So, regarding 
the foreign missionary from the individualistic and from 
the "natural law" point of view, he was weighed in the 
balance and found wanting. He was a dreamer, a med- 
dler, and a sentimentalist. 

I. Economics and Foreign Missions 

But there has been a change in the economist's opinion. 
Since Adam Smith's day, much progress has been made 
by the economist towards a higher and truer standard 
for man. We know now only too well that it frequently 
happens that the interest of the individual, as he sees it, 
is not the interest of the community. Standing on Adam 
Smith's shoulders, the modern economists have begun to 
see that, as Professor Cairnes has expressed it, "Human 
beings know and follow their interests according to their 
lights and dispositions : but not necessarily, nor in prac- 
tice always, in the sense in which the interest of the indi- 
vidual is coincident with that of others and of the whole." 
Consequently we are turning in the twentieth century 
from an emphasis on individualism to an emphasis on the 
solidarity of society. The science of economics is teach- 
ing now that the criterion of all practices is social utility, 
and that there can be no lasting prosperity of the indi- 
vidual apart from the welfare of society as a whole. In 
short, economics has been coming to have Christian foun- 
dations, to see that the strong are to bear the burdens of 
the weak, that if one member of society suffers all suffer 
— which is the point of view of foreign missions. 

We can see the solidarity of human interest in a simple 
illustration. A certain manufacturer produces a cheap 
grade of shoes. He employs one thousand laborers. The 



266 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

labor market is oversupplied with men seeking work. 
The employer is able to pay the workmen lower wages 
than is necessary to maintain the laborers in their full 
efficiency and therefore does so. Not only does the la- 
borer suffer, but also the community, because the laborer 
is underpaid and in the long run the manufacturer who 
sought to benefit himself at others' expense suffers with 
the rest. There is a twofold loss to him as a producer. 
The first loss is due to the fact that he is employing 
laborers of less efficiency than would have been the case if 
they had been better paid. The second loss, which is the 
greater of the two, lies in the fact that perhaps nine- 
tenths of those who consume the necessities of life in the 
average community are the laborers themselves. They 
are not able, if underpaid, to buy the shoes which our 
producer has made. It is evident therefore that the manu- 
facturer's advantage depends upon the advantage of the 
workers. The interests of the different agents of produc- 
tion are identical when regarded from the social point of 
view. This new basis for estimating social values has 
developed very greatly in the last two decades. It is 
called the "social utility" idea, and means that the human 
race has a common economic interest which knows no 
lines of division and that to get the best results for all 
in the long run we must consider the group rather than 
the individual. 

Some concrete illustrations may help us to realize the 
extent to which this standard of social utility is actually 
finding expression in various phases of our economic 
Hfe. What, for example, is to be the modern justification 
of private ownership of property? The attacks of the 
extreme socialists against private ownership, especially 
of land, have led the economists to examine the grounds 
of its validity. Different theories for justifying private 
ownership of property have been put forward in the past, 
among which were the "occupation," the "legal," and the 
"labor" justifications. None of them has been able to 



MISSIONS, ECONOMICS, BUSINESS 267 

stand a critical examination. In fact, there is only one 
possible justification for private ownership of property, 
and that is "social utility." If we are to continue to have 
private ownership of property it will be because we be- 
lieve that the social advantage is greater under this form 
of ownership than would be the case if all property were 
nationalized. 

Or consider the modern principles of taxation. A 
great change in the theory of taxation has been taking 
place in recent years. For many decades we thought 
that a man should be taxed according to the "benefit" he 
received from the Government. If he were a large prop- 
erty owner it was felt that he should pay a higher tax 
than the n:;an who had less property, because he received 
more from the Government in the form of protection for 
his property. This view, however, is being found to be 
superficial and cannot be held logically, because it is fre- 
quently the case that the rich man needs less protection 
from the Government than the poor man. There is no 
correlation between individual riches and individual bene- 
fit from the Government. The benefit basis of taxation 
has been supplanted by the more modern conception of 
"ability." What is meant by taxing men according to 
their ability ? It means that a man must contribute to the 
needs of the country in proportion to his wealth or his 
income. It is not a question of how much he receives 
from the Government, but how much he is able to give. 
The concrete evidence that governments are taxing 
the people according to their ability to pay is found in 
the taxes during the war. The taxes levied during the 
war were not only in proportion to wealth or income, but 
were highly progressive with the increases of wealth or 
income, the rate of taxation increasing with the increase 
of income. The theory underlying this graduated income 
tax is that every man has an obligation to his fellow- 
countrymen in proportion to his ability to help them. 
And it seems clear that the "ability" basis for taxation 



268 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

has come to stay — ^that to whom much is given of him 
shall much be required. 

With reference to large corporations, the entire trend 
of legislation has been towards the goal of the greatest 
good to the body politic. The law-making bodies are 
regarding the corporations, not so much from the stand- 
point of profits, as from that of the prosperity of the 
people. They are asking this question: "What is the 
ratio between the profits of the large corporations and 
what they contribute to the general welfare of the peo- 
ple?" This holds true also in our public utiHty corpora- 
tions, regardless of whether we believe the solution to 
be either public or private ownership. This whole ques- 
tion of public or private ownership of railways and other 
public services will be decided on the basis of social ad- 
vantage. If the social benefit is greater in public owner- 
ship, we will eventually nationalize the railways; if not, 
they will again pass into private hands. There is a grow- 
ing agreement that social utility must be the final test. 

Or consider the most recent illustration of applying 
the principle of social utility to a great commercial enter- 
prise. Probably no movement has brought so much sur- 
prise to the average man as the rapid progress of our 
country towards prohibition. The stock argument against 
prohibition has been that, in this land of the free, the 
rights and liberties of the individual must ever remain 
paramount and that no one has the right to interfere 
with the personal freedom of action of anybody else. Yet 
national prohibition is here. Often highly educated men 
have affirmed that it simply could not happen that the 
whole nation would "mount the water-wagon," How can 
we account for it? There is only one explanation. We 
have been rapidly drawing towards the social utility 
basis of controlhng our national life. The war hastened 
the movement toward prohibition, but the war was not 
the cause of it. It would have come anyway, sooner or 
later, because it had become clear that the advantage to 



MISSIONS, ECONOMICS, BUSINESS 269 

society as a whole is of far greater consequence than the 
economic advantage or the personal pleasure of compara- 
tively few. 

Recently an economist in one of our large universities 
remarked that he had never been able to get nearer to 
a belief in a personal God than did Herbert Spencer, yet 
he was prepared to admit that in adopting the social util- 
ity idea economics was becoming essentially Christian. 
The economist was right, for this concept is Christian 
to the core. It is impossible to say just how much 
Christianity has done to bring this idea into the present 
growing degree of acceptance, but the important thing is 
to note that the principle which has always been insepa- 
rable from the Christian way of life seems now to be 
becoming a theory of economics. Christ's teaching of 
love, hitherto regarded by the majority as an imprac- 
ticable ideal, is beginning to be seen as the only practica- 
ble foundation of society. 

II. Business and Foreign Missions 

It is undoubtedly true that business and industry still 
largely cling to the old competitive individualism which 
the science of economics is rapidly passing beyond. But 
since economics furnishes the organizing principles 
around which commerce tends to be built, we may be 
confident that the idea of social utility and cooperation 
will one day control our business and industrial life. Al- 
ready there are many hopeful signs and outstanding ex- 
amples of the new spirit. An increasing number of men 
are believing today that business is not primarily for 
private profit but for public service — in short, that it is 
one great way of serving the Kingdom of God. There 
is unmistakably a gradually growing conviction that the 
success of a Christian in any business or industry must 
be judged by the extent to which it ministers to the 
good of the whole community. There is also an increas- 
ing conviction that the method of cooperation must find 



270 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

a larger place. When the day comes when our business 
is organized, not on the principle of individual self-seek- 
ing, but on the Christian principle of social service, 
American international trade will become a powerful 
agency for carrying the Christian Gospel into all the life 
of all the world. 

But the foreign missionary is still handicapped by those 
business men who cling to the old idea that the one ob- 
ject in trade and industry is to make profits and declare 
dividends. In a recent issue of one of the most popular 
magazines in the world an article bore a heading to the 
effect that men thought that the American ambassador 
represented them in the Far East, but that this was not 
so; it was the foreign missionary. There is much truth 
in this, but why was the American business man over- 
looked? For it is both from the foreign missionary and 
the business man that the peoples of foreign countries get 
their idea of America. How, then, can we hope to con- 
vince the non-Christian world of the truth and supreme 
worth of Christianity if business representatives of so- 
called Christian America carry on their daily work in a 
way that reveals how little the gospel of service and love 
has laid hold of the practical social relationships of our 
land? Western trade may act so loudly that the people 
of the East cannot hear what the missionary has to say. 

One need consider for only a moment certain aspects 
of the history of Western nations in international trade 
with the Orient to realize how business practice has de- 
nied the message that the missionary has preached. The 
missionary has proclaimed a gospel of human brother- 
hood and service. The trader has all too often incarnated 
a gospel of selfishness, even of exploitation of the weak 
by the strong. It is difficult to escape the logic of the 
Chinese woman in the interior town who said to a mis- 
sionary after an evangelistic appeal, "You come to us 
with Jesus in one hand and opium in the other. We do. 
not want your opium and your Jesus." But one need not 



MISSIONS, ECONOMICS, BUSINESS 271 

dwell on slave trade or opium traffic in the past or even 
on the present exploitation of native labor in the rubber 
industry, or trade in intoxicants and drugs with Africa 
or the East, to carry home the bearing of unchristian 
standards of business on the success of Christian mis- 
sions. It is not simply in these flagrant abuses abroad 
but in our general assumption that our trade and indus- 
try at home may rest on ruthless competition and un- 
restrained selfishness that our gospel of brotherhood is 
hindered in the world. The extent to which sheer indi- 
vidualism rules in the economic realm is the size of this 
handicap which the missionary has to overcome in reach- 
ing the non-Christian world effectively with the Gospel. 

A present-day illustration of what we have been saying 
may be found on a large scale in the attitude of some 
American business interests toward Mexico. Quite apart 
from the question as to whether financial interests are 
responsible for the propaganda for armed intervention, 
it is clear that there are those who would be quite willing 
to see America engaged in war with Mexico in order that 
their own business concerns might be protected. Yet it 
is almost beyond dispute that such a step would mean 
almost the destruction of the work of love which the mis- 
sionaries have been carrying on in that land and would 
paralyze for a generation our future missionary effort 
there.^ 

And what of the young men of foreign countries who 
are coming in increasing numbers to Christian countries 
to learn the methods of industry and commerce? What 
impression do they get of Christianity from our competi- 
tive seeking of material things? A number of Hindu 
students went to England to learn how modern industry 
was organized and carried on. When they arrived in 
England they found that the doors of the factories were 
closed against them. The English producers did not 



1 Cf. Chapter XIII. 



272 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

wish their Indian market destroyed and so refused to 
allow the Indian students to see how the goods were pro- 
duced, lest they return to India and start factories of 
their own. Practically all of educated India was aroused 
over the matter, and while this happened a number of 
years ago, it is not yet forgotten and cannot help reacting 
on the work of Christian missions in India. 

There is only one possible solution of this problem — 
all the contacts of the East and the West must be Chris- 
tianized if we are really to evangelize the nations. The 
home Church must set itself to Christianize our whole 
business, industrial, and social life. It is a great task 
but not an impossible one. The time never was more 
opportune, for in the economic realm itself many have 
already caught a vision of social utility and cooperation 
as the organizing principle of human relations. When 
the principle becomes really controlling in our Western 
life, all our international relationships, not simply our 
missionary relationships, will have become mighty factors 
in the Christianizing of the world. 



CHAPTER XXI 

MISSIONARY AGENCIES IN RELATION TO 
STUDENTS FROM OTHER LANDS 

The World War has had the effect of creating an 
enormous increase of interest on the part of almost all 
nations in American institutions. Throughout Latin 
America the suspicion and misunderstanding of the past 
have given way to a remarkable manifestation of admira- 
tion and friendliness. Each of the twenty republics would 
gladly send its students here, not only by scores but liter- 
ally by hundreds, if sufficient funds were available. The 
Brazilian Government has arranged to send us fifty of 
her ablest students annually. From India we hear that 
enthusiasm for things American is truly astounding and 
plans are already adopted which will result in the coming 
to America of a decidedly larger number of Indian stu- 
dents than formerly. The noble service rendered by our 
people in the Near East is bound to draw hundreds of 
youths from those suffering lands to our schools and col- 
leges. 

Recent appropriations by the Japanese Government 
will provide for sending immediately to America two or 
three hundred mature students and professors in addition 
to the one thousand already here. Through the generosity 
of many colleges, nearly two hundred French students are 
pursuing studies in America and more will arrive during 
the year. The initiative of a few friends of Serbia is 
opening the way for fifty of the ablest Serbian students 
to enjoy the fellowship of American students during the 
coming year. A prince royal from Siam has been instru- 
mental in attracting nearly two score of the promising 
youths of his country to our preparatory schools and 



274 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

universities. Young Aguinaldo, son of the famous revo- 
lutionary leader in the Philippines, is one of the five hun- 
dred splendid Filipino young men now making a high 
record in Uncle Sam's classroom. 

I. The Situation 

One hundred nations are seeing America through the 
eyes of their student representatives. Nearly ten thou- 
sand future leaders of thought and action have severed 
home ties, forsaken the haunts and customs of their child- 
hood, and braved the new and exacting conditions of our 
college and university life. Because of who they are and 
also because of who they are to be these students claim 
our attention. Among them are the political leaders of 
the future, the controllers of international commerce, the 
teachers of the teachers, and the moulders of religious 
thought and practice. 

A study of the student representatives from abroad 
brings out the following significant facts : 

1. Many of them are the product of missionary effort. 
Their contact with the life and work of missionaries 
has inspired them to come here for further study. Fully 
eighty per cent of the Chinese student secretaries now 
serving in France and England are the direct product of 
mission schools. We would be justified in saying that 
most of the foreign students in our church schools and 
colleges are there because of the intervention and help 
of missionaries, and that probably one-half of those en- 
rolled in our state and private institutions would not 
have come without missionary encouragement. This 
statement, however, would not apply to Latin American 
countries, where relatively few students have had any 
contact with missionary representatives. 

2. It is estimated that only about twenty-five per 
cent of the total number of foreign students in the United 
States are active Christians. From forty to fifty per 
cent of the Chinese indemnity students are positive Chris- 



STUDENTS FROM OTHER LANDS 275 

tians upon arrival here. Among one thousand from 
Japan it is doubtful whether three hundred are Chris- 
tians and the Japanese government student who is a 
Christian is the exception. Practically all from Roman 
and Greek Catholic lands have been "baptized in the 
faith," but as a class they are indifferent freethinkers, 
ridiculing religion. The Indian Student Christian Union 
reports that less than one-fifth of the enrolment of 
Indians here is Christian. 

3. Our student guests from abroad are sensitive, im- 
pressionable, and very susceptible to friendly courtesy. 
How conscious they are of differences in physical fea- 
tures, language, and customs between themselves and 
American students, and how eagerly they seize every op- 
portunity that will enable them more nearly to conform to 
the ways of their fellow-collegians, even to adopting the 
pipe, cigarette, chewing gum, and slang ! If they are cor- 
dially received and courteously assisted when they first 
come among us they never forget it, and they immediately 
begin to shout and write the praises of America. If, on 
the other hand, they receive shabby treatment, they are 
likely to carry through life recollections of discrimination 
and to conclude that the missionary has falsified and that 
all Christians are hypocrites. 

4. Those who have returned to their countries without 
becoming positive Christians are a hindrance to mission- 
ary work. From every mission field comes the appeal, 
"Win for Christ our students in America." Have we 
not all heard of the damaging influence of the trained 
sceptic and agnostic as he returns to his own people 
from study abroad? Nothing is more depressing to the 
champion of world-wide evangelization than the authen- 
tic reports of the haughty, lazy, selfish conduct of scores 
of returning students. Some have circulated startling 
stories of the participation of missionaries in an imperial- 
istic and commercial program. Others have led aggres- 
sive campaigns to arouse their people to open hostility 



276 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

toward Christian propaganda. On the other hand, we 
are greatly encouraged by the glowing reports of the 
magnificent service and leadership of hundreds of self- 
denying students who have caught the vision of the need 
and only hope of their people and are working shoulder 
to shoulder with missionary forces. It is encouraging 
to be able to say that those who are with us are far more 
influential than those who are against us. There are not 
a few individual graduates of our institutions at work 
among their own people, whose contribution to the cause 
of Christ exceeds that of ten missionaries. 

5. The last fact to which we call attention is the 
responsiveness of these students. When Christian truth 
is presented to them in terms of life and service many 
gladly accept it. Eight Chinese students were baptized 
at the Northfield Student Conference in June ; forty dele- 
gates from Latin American countries signed a positive 
declaration of Christian purpose. From time to time 
during the year we hear of foreign students accepting 
Christ and uniting with the Church. 

II. How TO Meet the Situation 

In view of the foregoing facts it is important that 
all mission boards and agencies should know what organi- 
zations are seeking to meet this unusual opportunity, 
ascertain the objective, methods, and results of such 
efforts, more adequately support existing agencies, and 
set in motion such new forces as may be required. In 
addition to the Government Bureau of Education in 
Washington, the following organizations may be men- 
tioned as the most active in promoting the welfare of 
students and professors from other lands: the Cosmo- 
politan Club; Chinese Students' Alliance and also their 
Christian Association; the Council of North American 
Education ; the Association of American Colleges ; the 
Council of Church Boards of Education ; the Institute of 
International Education; the Pan-American Union; the 



STUDENTS FROM OTHER LANDS 277 

Inter- America Round Table; the Committee on Co- 
operation in Latin America ; the Student Christian Move- 
ment, including the Young Men's Christian Association 
and the Young Women's Christian Association and the 
Student Volunteer Movement; and the Committee on 
Friendly Relations among Foreign Students. 

Since 1911 the Committee on Friendly Relations among 
Foreign Students has been attempting to supply informa- 
tion to students abroad and to meet and guide them upon 
their arrival here. It has further been its aim to promote 
friendly relations among all such students while they are 
in America and to follow them by correspondence upon 
their return to their home land. Some of the means 
employed are the printing and distributing of guidebooks 
and foreign student magazines, the employing of travel- 
ing secretaries representing Asia, Latin America, and the 
Near East, organizing Bible discussion groups, providing 
evangelistic addresses, presenting devotional literature, 
and inviting annually about five hundred foreign students 
to be guests at summer conferences. It is its purpose to 
meet the individual's immediate need, to ascertain his 
major interest, and to serve him in such a natural and 
sympathetic way as to win his confidence, and, friendship 
having been established, to share our most precious gift — 
acquaintance and fellowship with Christ. 

Not only does the large number of foreign students in 
America oflFer a powerful challenge to our Churches, but 
the visits of an increasing number of tourists and other 
travelers also afiford an extensive opportunity to reveal 
and interpret the higher Christian forces at work within 
our nation. One method of making such an impression 
that has been successfully tried and could well be more 
widely used is the giving of dinners at which representa- 
tive Christian citizens speak frankly of their convictions 
that the best in our American Hfe has its source in our 
religion. The visit of a prominent railroad manager 
from Brazil to a Railroad Young Men's Christian Asso- 



278 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

ciation in New York led him to declare that he would 
establish this institution on similar lines upon returning 
home. Likewise men from other nations, having ob- 
served various phases of our social and religious welfare 
activity, have resolved that they would carry on such 
work among their own people. 

In view of the strategic importance of this group of 
foreign visitors and students perhaps the following sug- 
gestions to churches and church members will be timely : 

1. Let pastors of churches ascertain the number and 
nationality of foreign students and special visitors in the 
vicinity of their churches. Let them then present these 
facts to certain members of their congregation who can 
invite such students from time to time to come to their 
homes for dinner or for a week-end and to accompany 
them to church on Sunday. It is particularly desirable 
to discover the major interest of each foreign student and 
visitor in order to relate him to some Christian American 
with similar interests. For example, students in banking 
should be introduced to Christian bankers and medical 
students to our Christian physicians. By inquiring of 
the student Y. M. C. A. secretary in any community, in- 
formation can be obtained regarding the names, ad- 
dresses, nationality, and religious preference of foreign 
students and thus the point of contact can be more readily 
established with them. 

2. Occasionally a group of foreign students desires to 
hold a conference, an important committee meeting, or a 
retreat, and would gladly accept the offer of a private 
home for it. Through the help of a few friends in the 
same neighborhood lodging and meals could be provided 
over the week-end for such a group of future Christian 
leaders. 

3. Students and visitors from other lands might well 
be invited to address churches, young people's meetings, 
Sunday schools, missionary societies, and similar gather- 
ings. A small honorarium, although not required, would 



STUDENTS FROM OTHER LANDS 279 

be much appreciated by many of these students who are 
earning part of their college expenses. Among the for- 
eign students there are also many who have special talents 
as entertainers, and in some instances dramatic groups 
have been organized with a view to presenting a strong 
missionary and international appeal before organizations 
or societies that care for such presentations. 

4. There are many helpful ministries that Christian 
people could render to these foreign students. They 
should be very alert to discover cases of illness or dis- 
couragement and by visitation and otherwise to minister 
to any such students. The distribution of helpful books 
and pamphlets is another important service that is easily 
rendered. 

5. The broadening and educative influence of a few 
choice future leaders from abroad at picnics and excur- 
sions of Sunday schools or at social gatherings of other 
church organizations has been proved by those who have 
tried the experiment. 

6. With comparatively little effort the educated 
leaders from abroad in any community can be enlisted in 
service to their fellow-countrymen through the conduct- 
ing of boys' clubs, teaching of English and fundamentals 
of American citizenship, visitation, etc. Such services on 
their part will benefit both their fellow-countrymen and 
themselves. 

7. Mission boards and returned missionaries might 
well consult mature representatives of the various coun- 
tries in order to ascertain their suggestions regarding 
policies and programs. 

It would be highly inconsistent for missionary societies 
which are largely responsible for the presence of students 
in America from all mission lands to neglect their wel- 
fare when here or to be indifferent to their deepest needs. 
Statesmanship, strategy, and economy demand far greater 
vigilance on our part regarding this important element 
in our student life. 



CHAPTER XXII 

FOREIGN POLICIES OF THE UNITED STATES 

AND THE SUCCESS OF FOREIGN 

MISSIONS 

In this day when the United States is being brought 
into the currents of international life to a degree never 
dreamed of hitherto, the bearing of our foreign policies 
as a nation upon the success of foreign missions becomes 
more significant and more evident than ever before. 
These policies have already had important influence on 
foreign missions, although few American Christians 
realize how important that influence has been. We need, 
therefore, to examine both the beneficial and the hurtful 
effects of our past foreign policies, in order to find clear 
guidance for the future. 

First let us define our terms. By "foreign policies of 
the United States" we mean not only the more formal 
utterances by the Department of State and the Senate 
of consciously conceived principles and purposes which 
control their international decisions and actions, but also 
those more or less unconscious motives and emotions 
which determine the international attitudes of mind and 
the correlated activities of the entire nation. For in- 
stance, the official and no doubt sincere utterances of the 
Department of State toward China have always been 
those of friendship, yet since 1870 the attitude and con- 
duct of the people as a whole toward Chinese in America 
have not been characterized by friendliness. An attitude 
of selfishness and arrogance leading at times to brutal 
deeds of violence and to anti-Chinese legislation has ex- 
pressed itself in a definite though unavowed policy of 



OUR FOREIGN POLICIES 281 

antagonism. Of course, multitudes of Americans have 
not shared in these f eeHngs and spirit. They have, indeed, 
condemned them. Yet the attitude referred to has been 
sufficiently widespread and forceful to dominate the legis- 
lative actions of our country, and may be fairly regarded 
as its "policy" in dealing with Asiatics. 

While Americans may well rejoice that on the whole 
the foreign policies of the United States have been noble 
and praiseworthy, yet we should not close our eyes to 
facts of an opposite character. The remarkable successes 
thus far achieved by the missionary enterprises of Ameri- 
can Christians have been due in no small part to the 
essentially Christian character of those policies. Yet 
certain features in these policies have been clearly un- 
christian and these have equally clearly brought disas- 
trous consequences on the mission fields. 

I. Christian Foreign Policies of the United States 
AND Their Beneficial Results for Missions 

American merchants played an honorable and success- 
ful role in the early and middle part of the last century, 
in introducing China and her trade to the world. Amer- 
ica's diplomatic representatives in China, as in many 
other lands, were men of broad vision and Christian 
character. They desired and sought fair dealing rather 
than special advantages and rights for America and 
Americans. This contrast of spirit and aims led the 
Chinese Government, as it has led other governments 
also, to place high confidence in the American Govern- 
ment and people. 

Anson Burlingame for several years (1860-1868) 
proved himself such a staunch defender of China's rights 
as against the predatory aims and methods of some other 
governments that "at the request of China and with the 
consent of his own government he resigned his post 
and was appointed by the Chinese Government in 1868 
its Envoy to the United States and to the principal Euro- 



282 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

pean nations. The Chinese Embassy, with Mr. Bur- 
lingame at its head, was received in the United States 
with an almost continuous ovation; and even in Califor- 
nia was heralded as the precursor of new and broader 
relations of trade and friendship between the two coun- 
tries." A new treaty was drawn and "signed by repre- 
sentatives of the two nations amidst the applause of the 
whole country." It secured reciprocally among other 
things freedom of residence, travel, and immigration and 
"most favored nation treatment." It also pledged the 
territorial integrity of China. 

Mr. Burlingame and his Chinese Commission went on 
to Europe to try to secure similarly friendly treaties be- 
tween China and the governments of those lands but, 
unfortunately for the world, he died just as he was enter- 
ing on his important task. 

The influence of such friendly governmental relations 
between America and China on the success of American 
missions in China has been beyond calculation. It was 
one of the important factors that secured the missionaries 
opportunity for continued activity unhampered by local 
or national interference. The amazing safety which on 
the whole was accorded to Christian missions, in spite of 
local opposition and religious prejudices that sometimes 
found open and violent expression, was thus due in no 
small measure to America's foreign policies. 

Other instances of fine and Christian policies toward 
China on the part of America can be only referred to. 
Consider the policy of the "open door," first insisted on 
by Secretary of State Hay. At that time, Japan, Ger- 
many, Russia, England, and France were vying with each 
other in the "partition of China." Secretary Hay pro- 
posed the "open door policy" in such a way that without 
any act by our army and navy, and even without a threat, 
he called a halt on the predatory policies of other nations. 
When China attempted by the Boxer uprising to drive 
the foreigners out, and the nations were disposed to de- 



OUR FOREIGN POLICIES 383 

clare the Manchu Government at an end and to take 
over the entire government of China, it was Mr. Hay 
who saved China and gave her another chance. Of all 
the governments that exacted enormous indemnities be- 
cause of the destruction and expenses caused by the 
Boxers, America alone returned what she received be- 
yond actual costs. These deeds and policies expressing 
fundamentally Christian attitudes toward the Chinese 
race and people have had a most salutary influence on the 
Chinese people. The phenomenal successes of American 
missions in China during the past two decades have been 
possible only because of the confidence and good will 
evoked by these deeds of friendship. 

Turning to Japan, we find that the story is essentially 
the same. The names differ — the spirit and policy have 
been identical. Japan's natural resentment and even rage 
at the presumptuous act of Commodore Perry in sailing 
into the Bay of Yeddo (1853), for two centuries closed 
to foreign ships, was soon allayed. For the Government 
and people in time discovered the Christian spirit and 
character of Minister Harris, who patiently negotiated 
that first treaty of commerce. It was so fair to Japan 
that she was saved at the very start of her new inter- 
national life from many of the disastrous policies and 
ambitions of the European powers. This experience has 
been the basis of an extraordinary attitude of friendship 
and good will toward America. 

For two and a half centuries Japan had been a closed 
country because of her well- justified fear of the so-called 
Christian nations of the sixteenth and seventeenth cen- 
turies. Their policies caused a calamity of incalculable 
proportions to the Christianization of the Orient. Had 
Japan become a Christian land at the time — and China, 
too — what might not the world have been saved? 

That a new opportunity has come for missions in Japan 
is largely due to the Christian policy of the United States 
toward Japan in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, and to 



284 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

the Christian character of the men sent to Japan by the 
American Government in those critical decades. As in 
China, so in Japan, America restored an indemnity 
fund to which she did not feel just claim — ^the "Shimo- 
noseki Indemnity" ($875,000 received in 1865 and re- 
stored in 1883). The Christian character of multitudes of 
American teachers and professors who went to Japan 
and the fine treatment of large numbers of Japanese stu- 
dents who came to America in the three closing decades 
of the last century have had an enormous, an incalculable, 
effect in Japan. By our essential friendliness we dis- 
pelled her fear and induced confidence. This was a 
prerequisite to the successful proclamation of the Gospel. 

11. Unchristian Foreign Policies of the United 
States and Their Harmful Effects 

If America's foreign policies had always been Chris- 
tian in every respect, who can measure the results that 
would today be gladdening our eyes ? Honesty compels 
humiliating confessions. In this brief paper we may 
note but a few illustrations. 

The slave traffic, carried on under the sanction of the 
Government, for decades disgraced our history and 
brought on our land a blight that will last perhaps for 
centuries. Who can tell all the ways in which it has 
hindered the successful prosecution of foreign missions, 
not only in Africa but in every land? Slavery, long 
supported and defended by American Christians, even 
yet causes Japanese students of Christianity to ask 
searching questions as to the claims of Christianity to be 
the absolute religion. Race riots in Washington and 
Chicago today, half a century after the abolition of sla- 
very, yet its direct consequence, make Asia wonder if 
America is Christian in fact or only in name and pre- 
tense. The obstacles to foreign missions which are raised 
by these doubts are tremendously serious. 

And who can tell what the history of Africa might 



OUR FOREIGN POLICIES 285 

have been had America been free from slavery? The 
Christian zeal of the churches of America might have 
changed the history of Africa from a vast tragedy to a 
glorious revelation of the success of Christian missions. 

The race prejudice against Negroes now so widespread 
in America, one of the baleful results of slavery, is pass- 
ing over to a race prejudice against Asiatics. It is reveal- 
ing itself in a national policy of arrogance toward Asiatics 
and unfair and unfriendly dealings with them that is 
highly ominous for the future. Its disastrous effects on 
missions in Asia will increasingly appear as time goes 
on. The rising discussions of the "yellow peril" or of 
the predicted "war of the white and yellow races for the 
domination of the world" are ominous hints that should 
make every thoughtful man pause. In proportion as 
this thought spreads and grips the West will it also 
spread and grip the East. It will determine their policies 
as a race in proportion as it moulds ours. The obstacles 
it will place in the way of missionary success in Asia are 
incalculable. But in the same measure it will manifest 
the failure of essential Christianity in our own land. 
Thus closely interlinked is the success of foreign missions 
in Asia with the success of Christianity here. 

Let us, however, be more specific. When the anti- 
Chinese agitation developed in California in the eighties 
of the last century, mob violence developed in many 
places. The Federal Government was unable to keep its 
treaty obligations to protect the life and property of 
aliens. This fact was also true in the case of Italians 
and other peoples. It is still true. Congress and the 
people of America are apparently so indifferent to treaty 
obligations that nothing has been done to set the laws 
right, in spite of the urgent appeals of four of our recent 
presidents for the needed legislation. 

Disregarding our treaty pledges to China that her citi- 
zens in America shall have "the most favored nation 
treatment," laws have been passed repeatedly in violation 



286 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

of that pledge. The Supreme Court in a test case de- 
clared the Scott Act "in contravention of the treaty," 
yet it upheld the law, while it condemned Congress for 
passing a law that violates moral principles in interna- 
tional relations.^ American Christians have not yet 
awakened to the blot on America's honor because of the 
situation nor to the danger that may yet grow out of it. 
Since 1870 partisan politics have repeatedly appealed 
to race prejudice. Politicians have capitalized that pre- 
judice for personal or party advantage. The Chinese and 
latterly the Japanese have been subjected to slander and 
vilification. Few leaders in political life have attempted 
to secure them justice. A new anti- Japanese campaign 
is now being staged. Falsehoods without limit are cir- 



^ A full account of the conduct of Congress during the latter 
part of the last century when both political parties sought to win 
the vote of the Pacific Coast states is hardly possible in a para- 
graph or two. The history of that dark period is well recorded 
in Professor M. R. Cooledge's "Chinese Immigration" (Henry 
Holt, 1909). A few sentences, however, may give a general idea 
of what took place. 

The treaty with China of 1880, which arranged for the tem- 
porary suspension of Chinese immigration, provides in a number 
of places that Chinese laborers in the United States shall receive 
"most favored nation treatment." It specifically states (Art. H) 
that "Chinese laborers who are now in the United States shall 
be allowed to go and come of their own free will and shall be 
accorded all the rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions 
which are accorded to the citizens of the most favored nation." 
In the course of many years of rivalry to capitalize for party 
politics the anti-Chinese sentiment of California, Congressman 
Scott introduced (September, 1888) a bill, which was promptly 
passed, providing that no more certificates for return to America 
should be granted to (Chinese laborers; and making "all hereto- 
fore issued void." At that very time there were 20,000 Chinese 
who held such certificates, 600 of whom were on the ocean on 
their way back from a visit to China. They were refused re- 
admission to the United States. Chinese in America believed 
that the courts would uphold their treaty rights, since the Con- 
stitution declares that "treaties are the supreme law of the land." 
They accordingly raised a fund of $100,000 and carried their test 
case to the Supreme Court, with the amazing result recorded in 
the text. The Chinese minister then wrote to Mr. Blaine, our 
Secretary of State : "I was not prepared to learn that there was 
a way recognized in the law and practice of this country by 
which your country could release itself from treaty obligations 
without consultations or consent of the other party." 



OUR FOREIGN POLICIES 287 

culated over the country by a press only too ready to 
lend itself to sensational "news." Not only the people 
generally but even the Christians of America are swayed 
by these methods. Their attitudes of mind and their 
votes are supporting policies that are clearly in conflict 
with the Golden Rule. Laws are passed saactioning 
economic discriminations against Asiatics merely because 
they are Asiatics. Citizenship is refused them merely 
on that ground, however well they may qualify in every 
intellectual and moral respect. 

These policies in America are beginning to have unfor- 
tunate results on the Christian movement in Japan. 
Should they continue and lead at last to a serious clash, 
the disaster to the missionary work in that land would 
be instant and terrific. The splendid results of fifty 
years would be largely, if not wholly, wiped out. Yet 
war between America and Japan is a subject of frequent 
conversation among many and of definite prophecy and 
even of desire by some. If the Churches of America are 
earnest with their missions in Japan and China, they 
should grapple at once and energetically with the unchris- 
tian anti-Asiatic policies that are now sweeping through 
our land. 

Another illustration of the same principle is found in 
our relations with Latin America. The "Monroe Doc- 
trine" is one of the consciously avowed policies of our 
people and Government. The true statement of that doc- 
trine, which is essentially Christian, has been largely set 
aside, while a rank perversion has widely taken its place. 
Our friendly attitude of opposition to all predatory am- 
bitions of European peoples in this hemisphere has been 
transformed into a doctrine of priority of our rights and 
interests in Latin American countries. This has been 
deeply resented by them. The damage wrought to our 
mutual relations by this unchristian doctrine cannot 
easily be estimated. It has seriously disturbed, not only 
our political and commercial, but also our intellectual 



288 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

and religious contacts. It has bred suspicion and hostility 
and has hampered in serious ways the proclamation of 
the Gospel of Jesus. 

Our relations to Mexico constitute another pertinent 
illustration of the subject under discussion. Our govern- 
mental policy in dealing with the disturbed conditions in 
that country will have untold consequences on our mis- 
sion work there. Intervention, so widely demanded in 
certain quarters, would unquestionably play havoc with 
our missions. The problem is a difficult one, but the 
only real solution will be a Christian solution. 

HI. Practical Lessons and Suggestions 

The practical outcome of this line of study is clear. 
It may be stated in a series of propositions. 

1. The Churches have inescapable responsibilities and 
duties in regard to the foreign policies of our people and 
Government, for the successful Christianization of the 
world is bound up with our maintenance of Christian 
international policies. 

2. All Christians should be informed and educated in 
these matters. Every Christian should be taught that he 
has international political duties just as real and impor- 
tant as his community, state, and national duties. Inter- 
national righteousness is as truly a matter of individual 
responsibility as civic righteousness. Christian inter- 
nationalism, therefore, should be made a subject matter 
of textbooks and studied regularly and systematically by 
all mission study groups and classes. 

3. The responsible leaders of the Churches and of 
mission boards should be led to accept their responsibili- 
ties in these matters. How can these results be accom- 
plished unless the central agencies of the Churches take 
the leadership? 

If America is going to deal fairly with Orientals, if 
we are going to practice the Golden Rule in our dealings 
with China, Japan, Mexico, and Latin America, our na- 



OUR FOREIGN POLICIES 289 

tion will have to experience a change of heart. But if 
this change of heart is to come, definite individuals will 
experience it and give it expression. They will become 
the instruments of God's Spirit to transmit to the whole 
people that burning of heart, that conviction of national 
sin, and that earnestness of national repentance which are 
essential. This is the special privilege and opportunity 
of Christians and especially of Christian leaders, of mis- 
sionary leaders. They should be agents of God's will in 
international affairs. If Christian leaders do not hear 
God's voice on these matters, who will ? If they do not 
guide, who will see the way ? 

a. Every theological seminary should introduce ap- 
propriate lectures and courses of study. These should 
emphasize not only the fine results in foreign mission 
fields of the Christian ideals and practices of our coun- 
try, but also present points of defect and wrongdoing. 
All our pastors should know the facts and be prepared to 
preach about them, just as they do about the conditions 
on the mission fields. 

b. Every mission board, and especially the secretaries, 
in planning for mission study courses, should incorporate 
this subject as an integral part of such courses. 

c. The Foreign Missions Conference, and especially 
its permanent active representative, the Committee of 
Reference and Counsel, should be induced to make this 
matter one of its regular duties. Just as it focuses the 
attention and coordinates the work of the boards in cer- 
tain other matters pertinent to the success of foreign 
missions, so it should do the same in regard to this matter. 

Is it possible to awaken the Churches and secure 
appropriate action? It is, if the missionary boards and 
societies will give the matter the needed time and thought, 
and will take the needed steps. The foreign missionary 
work of the Churches should not be in the least degree 
relaxed. But there should be a readjustment of perspec- 
tive and of emphasis as to the practical duties of Chris- 



290 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

tians. A definite program should be worked out in which 
all the Churches may unite for dealing with this matter. 
How often would the Lord say to us, "These ye ought to 
have done, and not to have left the other undone"? 

What then, are the concrete steps which might wisely 
be taken? Should not the Committee of Reference and 
Counsel of the Foreign Missions Conference appoint a 
special Committee on International Friendship to grap- 
ple directly with this problem? Might it not prepare 
suitable courses of study on Christian Internationalism 
and recommend them to each foreign mission board, in 
order to get these questions adequately before its con- 
stituency? Proper recommendation of these courses by 
the recognized church leaders can go far toward securing 
their study in every adult group in every church in the 
United States. Every missionary magazine and denomi- 
national publication, moreover, should devote sufficient 
space and emphasis to these matters. Every Christian 
in America should say something informing and convinc- 
ing upon them. 

4. Since Churches and missionary hoards and socie- 
ties as such cannot wisely go into politics, some other 
method must he found for doing politically what needs 
to he done politically. The Churches need some central 
agency by which millions of Christians can act together 
politically when emergencies arise in international affairs. 
The Anti-Saloon League has been such an agency in the 
attainment of temperance legislation. The "World Alli- 
ance for International Friendship through the Churches" 
offers itself for such service. Let the Committee of 
Reference and Counsel, therefore, examine carefully the 
spirit, objectives, principles, organization, and personnel 
of this branch of the World Alliance and on approval 
commend it to the churches. 

A true international movement of Christians in Amer- 
ica to be effective in the largest sense needs to be linked 
up with similar movements in other lands. This also is 



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made possible by the World Alliance for International 
Friendship. Only as Christians in all Christian lands 
cooperate will it be possible to make Christian ethics 
dominant in international affairs. 

New clouds are lowering on the horizon of missionary 
work in the Orient. The policies and practices of "Chris- 
tian" nations are being closely scrutinized by wide-awake 
Orientals from the standpoint of their interests, their 
rights, and the Golden Rule proclaimed by our mission- 
aries. Unless Occidental nations square their conduct to 
the Golden Rule, the Occidental religion will not attain 
much success in the Orient. Oriental indignation and 
resentment at unfair and humiliating treatment do not 
constitute a mental attitude favorable to the acceptance 
of Occidental religion. 

But in spite of the clouds, many signs of encourage- 
ment spur us on with new hope and fresh vigor. The 
nations of the Orient are looking to America with re- 
newed interest and admiration, not merely because of 
the amazing revelation of the fighting powers of the 
United States, but also because of the equally amazing 
revelations of the idealism of our land. Unparalleled op- 
portunities of effective missionary work are opening be- 
fore the Churches. While contributing generously both 
of men and of money for the work abroad, thought and 
energy should also be directed to the battle for inter- 
national righteousness here at home, for so far as selfish 
forces control our foreign policies they will hamper the 
success of all that we undertake abroad. 



CHAPTER XXIII 

THE RELATION OF FOREIGN MISSIONS TO 
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 

It is not the purpose of this chapter to take up in an 
abstract or comprehensive fashion the general study of 
the relation of foreign missions to the political affairs of 
foreign governments.^ It will limit itself to the discussion 
of those special phases which were brought to the front 
during the World War and to the outstanding problems 
facing the foreign missionary enterprise as a result of 
the peace settlements which are being made. 

The war emphasized, as never before, the relationship 
of missions to the political policies of governments. The 
missionary enterprise, which in days of peace had only 
rarely had occasion to approach governments for the pur- 
pose of securing or of safeguarding liberty of action, 
found itself during the war beset on every side by gov- 
ernmental regulations which affected its agents and its 
activities, even as they did those of all other enterprises. 
Passports became more difficult to secure. Military per- 
mits became necessary for admission to a large number 
of countries. The military draft affected the lives of 
prospective candidates and even of missionaries already 
in service. The censorship interfered with free com- 
munication whether by mail or by cable. In lands where 
missionaries were operating under enemy governments, 
they themselves were liable to be interned or deported 
and the missionary property became liable to confiscation. 

1 For full discussion of this topic, see the Report of Commis- 
sion VII of the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, 1910, 
entitled "Missions and Governments." 



INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 293 

In these and many other ways, missions became conscious 
of governments and vital and continuous relationships 
were sustained between the two. It can be safely said 
that the war was a great education to both missions and 
governments, acquainting each with the character and 
functions of the other. 

I. Supra-Nationality 

One of the most interesting discussions resulting from 
the closer relationship of missions and governments dur- 
ing the war was that relating to the supra-nationality of 
missions. Might the Christian missionary enterprise and 
its agents be regarded as supra-national ? So the mission- 
ary representatives of certain neutral countries, led parti- 
cularly by the Archbishop of Sweden, argued, insisting 
that the missionary agencies operating in the warring 
countries and particularly in the Allied countries should 
urge upon their governments the supra-national charac- 
ter of missionaries who were citizens of enemy countries. 
Missionary agencies in Allied countries, while ready to 
plead with their own governments for the extension of 
fair treatment to all missionaries operating within the 
territories of their own governments, were not willing to 
take issue with those governments with a view to securing 
to missionaries whom these governments thought should 
be deported or excluded privileges which were denied to 
other citizens of the same countries. A successful effort 
was made to secure the recognition of the trust character 
of enemy missionary property in the treaty with Germany 
in order to avoid the confiscation of this property with 
other enemy property. This was tantamount to recogniz- 
ing the supra-nationality of missionary property. It was 
not found possible, however, to secure a similar status 
for the missionary himself. On the contrary, upon their 
own initiative, the Allied governments have gone forward 
with the enactment of legislation which will exclude many 
German missionaries from Allied territories and colonies. 



294 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

The basis for the distinction is obvious. Property, 
which is an inanimate thing, can properly be regarded as 
neutral in a political sense. The living agents of the mis- 
sionary agency cannot claim such a neutral character. 
If the missionary is to be supra-national during the days 
of v^rar, he must also be supra-national during the days 
of peace. The logic of his not being subject to the limita- 
tions of his citizenship during war would be that he could 
not claim any of the privileges of his citizenship, such as 
protection by his own country, during the days of peace. 
Unless a supra-national state can be established of which 
this individual becomes a citizen or subject, it is not 
possible for him to enjoy the privileges of a supra-na- 
tional citizenship. He must belong to some nationality 
and therefore not only enjoy the privileges but also incur 
the limitations or liabilities of such a citizenship in days 
of war as in days of peace. 

11. The League of Nations and the Mandates 

The proposed creation of a league of nations marks 
one of the greatest epochs in the history of the world. 
It would undergird the idealism of past centuries with 
an agency which might help to realize it in a practical 
way. It would remove the impotency of the Hague tri- 
bunal and of international agreements in the past, by es- 
tablishing an agency through which the ideals of interna- 
tional agreement might be made actual in the world and 
not left to an uncertain voluntary acceptance. Such a 
step, it need hardly be said, ought to be of tremendous 
significance to foreign missions. 

While the League of Nations has in it great possibili- 
ties for good to the missionary enterprise, it is important 
to note that it also has in it possibilities for evil. The 
plan itself will not count, in the long run, for nearly so 
much as will the way in which the plan works. Every- 
thing depends upon the personnel and the future policies 
of the League. It would be perfectly possible for un- 



INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 295 

scrupulous representatives to make the League of Na- 
tions a power for evil, and the adoption of wrong policies 
would also vitiate the value of this new agency of inter- 
national life whose possibilities for good are so great. 
Only as men of the highest ideals and capacity are named 
as representatives in the League and only as the nations 
who are members of it contribute to it out of their very 
best and noblest qualities, can this League become the 
power for good it is hoped it may be. 

Article XXII of the Covenant reads as follows: 

"To those colonies and territories which as a conse- 
quence of the late war have ceased to be under the 
sovereignty of the states which formerly governed them 
and which are inhabited by peoples not yet able to stand 
by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the 
modern world, there should be applied the principle that 
the well being and development of such peoples form a 
sacred trust of civilization and that securities for the 
performance of this trust should be embodied in this 
covenant." 

The foregoing paragraph sets forth the proposed man- 
datory government for territories taken either from Ger- 
many or Turkey. This registers an epoch-making ad- 
vance in political ideals. The conception of government 
for the benefit of the people themselves, and not for their 
exploitation, and likewise the conception of one nation 
administering this government in the name of all the na- 
tions, constitute political conceptions that are closely 
related in spirit to the missionary ideal itself. It is a 
theory of colonial administration which enthrones unsel- 
fishness and altruism in the political sphere even as in 
the missionary and religious sphere. If these ideals are 
realized, then the missionary may avowedly recognize 
the government official as his fellow-worker for the uplift 
of humanity and the advancement of the Kingdom of 
God. It is important, however, to recognize that the 
clear enunciation of such a theory of unselfish gov- 
ernment is far from the actual realization of such an 



296 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

ideal. Even should the nations accept on paper the high 
ideals of a mandatory government, there are innumerable 
opportunities for the miscarriage of justice and the abuse 
of power: in other words, for making the mandatory 
relationship a sugar-coated pill for the most disgraceful 
abuses of power and a selfish exploitation of the coun- 
tries committed to the care of these governments. 

As a means to the realization of the full value of the 
proposed mandatory government, three suggestions may 
be made : 

First, it is highly desirable that before any mandate 
be given or any territory assigned to any country for 
administration, the broad lines be laid down upon which 
all mandatory government is to be exercised. It will be 
much simpler to fix the regulations governing mandatory 
government before any territory is actually assigned to 
any given nation. After any territory is assigned to one 
nation there will be an inclination to debate the regula- 
tions of mandatory government in the light of their ap- 
plication to the particular territory that has already been 
assigned. 

Second, it is important that in the assignment of 
these territories due regard be given to the preferences 
and natural affinities of the peoples inhabiting them, so 
that a sympathetic and congenial mandatory power may 
be selected. 

In the third place, it is of the utmost importance that 
the government of each territory, by its mandatory 
power, be constantly reviewed by an appropriate com- 
mittee of the League of Nations, in order to see that the 
terms of the trusteeship are being actually fulfilled by the 
government in charge. A tendency may be found in the 
case of some European powers to regard a mandatory re- 
lationship as a full equivalent to complete possession or 
annexation. 

It is to be noted that if the high ideals of mandatory 
government are realized for ex-German and ex-Turkish 



INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 297 

territories the result will probably be of enormous value, 
not simply to these territories, but also by analogy to all 
other territories under European colonial government. 
For example, the colonial policy of France in Algeria and 
Tunisia, which constitute integral parts of France's 
world kingdom, may be profoundly influenced by the 
policy which France will be expected to observe under 
the mandatory system of government in any territory 
which may be assigned to her by a mandate of the nations. 

III. The Basis and Limits of Missionary Rights 

The question of the rights of religious propaganda has 
been raised in a sharper form as a result of the war. 
There are a number of distinctions and observations 
which now more than ever will conduce to clear thinking 
on the subject of missionary rights in relation to the 
political affairs of foreign government. 

1. Missionary Liberty versus Religious Liberty. 

Missionary liberty is closely related to religious liberty. 
But it is important to recognize the distinction between 
the two. Missionary liberty goes farther than reli- 
gious liberty. Religious liberty is simply the right of any 
adherent of a particular religion to conduct the religious 
exercises of his own religion for his own enjoyment and 
advantage. Missionary Hberty is the freedom to propa- 
gate by peaceful and approved methods one religion 
among the adherents of another. 

In connection with the peace negotiations at Paris it 
developed that the requirements of religious liberty might 
become deeply involved in political questions. In Po- 
land, for example, religious liberty involved an extended 
definition of the rights of political minorities in civic 
representation, in the maintenance of public schools, and 
in permission to use a particular language. The mission- 
ary enterprise is vitally interested in all efforts made to 



298 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

safeguard religious liberty, for religious liberty is the 
appropriate background for missionary liberty. 

2. Mandatory Government versus Foreign Govern- 
ment. 

It is important to observe here that a very marked 
difference obtains between the right which may be 
claimed from a foreign power in territory which is an 
integral part of that nation's world empire, and what may 
be claimed from that same power in a territory which it 
administers under a mandate of the League of Nations. 
In the first case, the foreign missionaries have no abso- 
lute rights within the territory of that power, save those 
rights which that power is pleased to afford to foreigners 
and foreign missionaries within its territories. In the 
second case, claims can undoubtedly be built up on the 
basis of the fact that the power in control is in fact a 
trustee for all nations and, save where administrative 
efficiency would be interfered with, is bound to accord 
to the citizens of any other country the same privileges 
as are accorded by it to its own citizens within that terri- 
tory. It is true, however, that a very powerful and influ- 
ential analogy will be built up for all colonial policy out 
of the altruism or the disinterested policies which may 
be evolved under the mandatory system of government. 

3. Moral Rights versus Legal Rights. 

The distinction between moral and legal rights of mis- 
sions and missionaries was fully discussed at Edinburgh 
in the Report of Commission VII. Here it is sufficient 
simply to point out that the only legal rights which any 
mission or missionary has in any country are those which 
are based upon the laws made by the government in con- 
trol or upon treaties existing between that power and 
the government of the mission or missionary. The liber- 
ties accorded may be inadequate under these laws and 



INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 399 

treaties. The limitations may be morally unjust. The 
missionary may record his dissatisfaction and protest. 
He may even get his own government to make represen- 
tations in order to have limitations removed. In the fu- 
ture the League of Nations may be a happy instrument 
through which such representations may be made in a 
friendly and yet influential way. But it needs to be 
remembered that the mission and the missionary have 
no legal right to proceed on a given course which is not 
allowed by the laws or the treaties made by the power 
in control. It may be granted, as a matter of theory, 
that any missionary has a moral right to court imprison- 
ment or even death as a protest against an unjust law, 
but he has no legal right to proceed in defiance of that 
law, and if he chooses so to do, he must not ask for 
the support of his country or countrymen while he suffers 
as a lawbreaker. It is the duty of the missionary con- 
stantly to seek, by proper representations or by proper 
methods of awakening public opinion, to lift the laws of 
a country to the point where they will accord with that 
which is morally right. It is certain that the situation will 
be extremely rare where a genuine moral compulsion 
will lay upon the missionary the obligation to go farther 
and to defy the law by claiming what he may think to be 
his moral rights, but which are not his legal rights. 

4. Individual Action versus Corporate Action. 

The opinion expressed at the Edinburgh Conference 
has been confirmed in these years since 1910, that 
it is important to have the corporate judgment of an 
entire mission to serve always as the corrective to the 
individual judgment of a single missionary in all matters 
that relate to foreign governments. The last person to 
make representations to the government is the individual 
who has been aggrieved. In the long run, the consensus 
of the many will serve as a wise balance to the judgment 
of the individual, and will exert a much more far-reaching 



300 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

influence upon one's own government and upon foreign 
governments than the representation of an individual 
missionary. The sympathetic relationship of a mission 
with the government in control and the prestige of a mis- 
sion because of its wise and sound policies across years 
are values of enormous importance. It should not be 
possible to have them dissipated by some single exhibi- 
tion of rashness or even of righteous indignation. 

In the light of the foregoing paragraphs it will be seen 
that no absolute definition can be given as to the right 
of the missionary in the matter of religious propaganda. 
The missionary is, after all, bound by the laws of the 
country where he serves. Where these laws do not seem 
to make clear the limits of his rights, he may properly 
argue, first, from the liberty accorded to other religions, 
even the religion of the country, in the matter of religious 
propaganda; and, secondly, from the liberty accorded in 
the country to political propaganda. He may also make 
full use of the privileges that would be granted ad- 
ministratively by some liberal-minded executives of the 
government, who accord at that time, or have accorded at 
some previous time, larger liberties than are commonly 
granted. Nor does the missionary need to become the 
creature of the government. While individual executives 
may become irritated by criticism of their political poli- 
cies, it is doubtful whether, with the democratic concep- 
tions which prevail at the present time, any government 
would wish to see the suppression of independent think- 
ing or of independent expression of public opinion, 
both of which have their place in the body politic. 
However, where the power in control belongs to another 
race and nationality than the people governed, the mis- 
sionary laboring in that territory will do well — indeed it 
will be his duty — ^to measure carefully the indirect effects 
of a purely religious propaganda. If he has a duty 
toward truth, he also has a duty toward the government 
under which he works. 



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IV. Need of an International Missionary Agency 

Should a league of nations be established or should any- 
other agency be set up through which the new interna- 
tional life of the world may function, it will fall to the 
missionary agencies of the world likewise to develop, 
more fully than has been developed in the past, some cen- 
tral world agency through which their common judgment 
may be expressed and their united policies find realiza- 
tion. Where the past has emphasized the need for na- 
tional organizations of missionary agencies which might 
make representation to the governments of these agencies, 
the time has now come for the development of an inter- 
national missionary agency which may represent the mis- 
sionary agencies of the whole world to the new interna- 
tional agency which the war is setting up under the heading 
of the League of Nations. It will be difficult at best to 
bring any adequate influence to bear upon the political 
policies of the League of Nations. Enormous forces will 
be operating for evil. It will not be easy to resist them. 
The united strength and influence of missionary agencies 
throughout the world will be required. The present 
situation calls, therefore, for missionary statesmanship 
and missionary unity on a scale never realized in the past. 

In the light of the foregoing statement, the hand of 
God can be seen guiding the missionary enterprise and 
preparing it for the present world situation. The World 
Missionary Conference in 1910 gave birth to the World 
Missionary Continuation Committee. During the days 
preceding the war this international missionary agency 
developed and strengthened the spirit of international 
cooperation. In order not to contravene the ideals of a 
perfect international cooperation the Continuation Com- 
mittee did not function during the war, inasmuch as it 
had upon its membership representatives of the warring 
countries. There was created, however, a special inter- 
national committee, called the "Emergency Committee 



302 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

of Cooperating Missions," representing the Allied coun- 
tries and such neutral countries as were able or willing 
to cooperate, and this Committee continued to function 
in an international way in behalf of the missionary agen- 
cies of the world. It was left to the future to determine 
whether the Emergency Committee of Cooperating Mis- 
sions should be made a permanent organization, its repre- 
sentation being made complete by the addition of repre- 
sentatives from the missionary agencies of the Central 
Powers, or whether some new form of international mis- 
sionary organization would be preferable. Owing to the 
direct contact which this Committee has with the mis- 
sionary agencies of the world, it would seem to be wise 
to commit to it exclusively all dealings with the League 
of Nations and its international sub-committees in mat- 
ters that concern the Christian missionary agencies of 
the world.^ 



1 The present membership and organization of the Committee 
is as follows : Chairman, John R. Mott ; Secretaries, J. H. Old- 
ham, Kenneth Maclennan; Membership: (American) James L. 
Barton, Arthur J. Brown, W. I. Chamberlain, Canon S. Gould, 
Frank Mason North, Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, Charles R. Wat- 
son; (British) Canon C B. Bardsley, Mrs. Creighton, J. N. 
Ogilvie, J. H. Ritson, C. E. Wilson, The Bishop of Winchester; 
(French) Daniel Couve; (Swedish) Karl Fries. 



APPENDIX 



APPENDIX I 
SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS 

Part I 

The Enhanced Significance and Urgency of 
Foreign Missions in the Light of the War 

Chapter I. Foreign Missions as a Preparation during 
the Past Century for the New Internationalism. 

1. Foreign missions has been during the past century 
a great factor in promoting in the East the development 
of national aspirations, on which true internationalism 
has to be built. 

2. But Christian missions, while ministering to the 
national group, has always assumed the unity of the hu- 
man race and has regarded nations not as ends in them- 
selves but as potential constituents of a world-wide 
brotherhood. 

3. Economic interests have facilitated international 
intercourse, but have rested too much on a basis of nar- 
row self-interest to be able to afford sufficient founda- 
tions for social order and good will. 

4. Foreign missions has been the greatest agency 
making for the new internationalism based on the ideal 
of cooperation and mutual service, for 

a. It has been the basis for the best there is in 
the confidence that the nations of the East and the 
West have in each other as moral institutions. 

b. It has been breaking down racial barriers, 
building up interracial friendships, and interpreting 
East and West to each other. 

c. By its relief of suffering and its social service 
it has incarnated the spirit of brotherhood and been 
a living assertion that there is idealism and altruism 
in the Western world. 

d. It has been developing a native leadership 
sympathetic to democracy and internationalism. 



306 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

5. The ultimate reason why foreign missions has been 
a great preparation for the new internationalism is found 
in the Christian conception of God. 

Chapter 11. What Foreign Missions Can Contribute to 
an Effective League of Nations. 

1. Any league of nations, to be effective, must be 
underwritten with the spirit of foreign missions. 

2. The service of missions to a league is not connected 
with its form of organization or with the direct work of 
the missionaries, but lies in the realm of adequate mo- 
tives, without which any league will be lifeless machinery. 

3. Foreign missions will serve the League of Nations 

a. By developing a body of people committed to 
the idea of brotherhood. 

b. By stimulating the spiritual forces of service 
and sacrifice on which alone the effectiveness of a 
league finally depends. 

c. By providing the attitude of faith that is 
indispensable to so untried an undertaking. 

. d. By developing a spirit of mutual understand- 
ing that encourages rational methods of dealing 
with differences in human relations. 

e. By providing a common interest and the bond 
of a common religion, without which a full and 
permanent brotherhood is impossible. 

4. Even after the adoption of a league the Christians 
of the world will be called upon to give their best efforts 
to make it conform increasingly to the spirit of Christ, 
but there will be no more direct service that they can 
render than to strengthen the missionary program. 

Chapter III. Foreign Missions and Democracy in Non- 
Christian Lands. 

1. Democracy and Christian missions are concerned 
with each other because of the religious foundations 
which democracy needs. 

2. There is a rising tide of democracy throughout the 
world, and particularly in Asia, manifesting itself in 

a. Increased national and racial consciousness. 

b. Growing desire for democratic institutions. 

3. Among the chief causes contributing to this new 
self-consciousness are : 



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a. Certain inherently democratic aspects in the 
structure of Asiatic life. 

b. The expansion of European colonial empires 
by military force. 

c. International commerce and the clash of the 
developing capitalistic forces of East and West. 

d. Political events of world-wide significance, 
such as the Japanese victory over Russia and the 
World War. 

e. Foreign missions and its gospel of the worth 
of the human soul. 

4. The rising social unrest presents a new challenge 
to Christian missions, which can make fundamental con- 
tributions by 

a. Holding up the ideal of a truly democratic 
fellowship in all social relationships. 

b. Emphasizing both by its message and by its 
education and social service the inherent value of 
all human life. 

c. Helping to develop a Christian industrial 
order, free from ruthless competition. 

d. Proclaiming the ideal of social responsibility. 

5. To accomplish this task the most indispensable 
condition is that the West come to a more Christian atti- 
tude toward the other races of the world. 

Chapter IV. The Enlarged Outlook of Foreign Mis- 
sions. 

1. The new social and international conditions, 
created or intensified by the war, give us a clearer con- 
ception of the task of missions not simply as the conver- 
sion of individuals but as the creation of a Christian 
society throughout the world. 

2. Certain great phases of the missionary task, there- 
fore, now need special recognition and emphasis : 

a. Christianizing nations. The legitimacy of 
proper nationalism is assumed and Christianity is 
presented as the power without which the highest 
nationhood cannot be realized. 

b. Nationalizing Christianity. If Christianity is 
ever to permeate and control the life of a nation, it 
must develop according to the native genius. 

c. Christianizing internationalism. The break- 
down of even the so-called Christian world because 



308 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

its international relations rested on unchristian prin- 
ciples presents a new occasion for proclaiming that 
the only foundations of the ordered life of the world 
are found in the Christian Gospel. 

d. The internationalizing of Christianity. This 
demands a fuller recognition of the universal char- 
acter of Christianity and the acceptance by the 
whole Church of its world responsibility. 

Part II 

The Effect of the War on the Religious 
Outlook in Various Lands 

Chapter V. The Effect of the War on the Vitality of 
the Non-Christian Religions. 

Introduction: Upon the other religions of the world, 
as well as upon Christianity, the effects of the war have 
been diverse — in part revivifying and in part weakening. 

1. Hinduism. 

a. The organization of a Hindu missionary so- 
ciety and the publication of "Hinduism, the World- 
Ideal" indicate a new vitality and world outlook. 

b. The effect of the war contacts in breaking 
down caste will probably loosen further the decreas- 
ing hold of Hinduism on the present generation. 

2. Shinto. 

a. Japan's new international relations have led 
to a claim of the universality of Shinto. 

b. On the whole, Shinto appears to be on the 
decline, even the Bushido code having lost prestige. 

3. Confucianism. 

a. The implicit universalism of Confucianism 
has become explicit in a proposal for universal 
peace on Confucian principles, and Confucianism 
has been stimulated to a reinterpretation of the idea 
of God, to a revival of the teaching of universal 
love, and to the worship of popular war deities. 

b. But the Confucian aristocratic and retro- 
spective ideals are incompatible with China's 
modern progressive and democratic ideals. 

4. Buddhism. 

a. In Siam official attempt was made to associate 
winning the war with the favor of Buddhist deities. 



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b. There continues, however, to be a general 
decline of Buddhism's hold in most of the Far East. 
5. Mohammedanism. 

The failure of the Holy War and the downfall of the 
Turkish Sultan have been serious blows at least to the 
political power of Islam. (See also under Chapter XII.) 

Qiapter VI. The War and New Influences among 
Oriental Women, 

1. There has been an awakening of a new national, 
and even international, consciousness among women of 
the Orient during the war, due to 

a. The going of their men abroad. 

b. Their own participation in Red Cross relief. 

2. There is an increasing sense of feminine freedom, 
manifesting itself particularly in 

a. Interest in social questions. 

b. Concern over health and sanitation. 

c. Interest in higher education. 

3. The increasing entrance of women into modern in- 
dustry marks a new era full of new dangers, both physi- 
cal and moral. 

4. In this period of growing unrest and questioning 
among the women of the Orient there is more urgent 
need for the full Gospel of Christ. 

Chapter VII. The War and the Missionary Outlook in 
India. 

1. The going of 1,000,000 Indians abroad has greatly 
accelerated the breaking down of India's isolation. 

2. The war has accelerated the coming of self-govern- 
ment and led to a definite promise of home rule. 

a. The resistance to the Rowlatt legislation, 
however, now intensifies racial bitterness. 

b. The need for character in order to assume 
the responsibility of self-government affords the 
missionary a new appeal. 

c. Progress toward democratic government pre- 
sents a new demand for education of the masses. 

d. It need not be feared that self-government 
will result in discrimination against missions. 

3. Under stress of war necessities the Government 
has initiated a new industrial program of state assistance 



310 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

to industries. Industrial and agricultural work now need 
a large emphasis in missionary activity, both in order 
that the Christian community may become self-support- 
ing and that the industrial development of the country 
may not be outside of religious influences. 

•i. The war has helped to give a new place to women, 
along educational, social, and even political lines. 

5. The war has helped to create a new conscience on 
the subject of strong drink. 

6. On missionary work the war has had the effect of 

a. Creating a new national spirit in the Indian 
Churches. 

b. Developing readiness for cooperation. 

c. Emphasizing the need of church unity. 

Chapter VIII. The War and the Missionary Outlook in 
China. 

1. The political effects of the war are complex and 
not yet entirely clear, but it may at least be said that 

a. Japanese economic and political control over 
China has been strengthened. 

b. The peace settlement appears at present un- 
satisfactory, but there are hopeful possibilities in a 
league of nations. 

c. Internally there has been great discord. 

2. In mission work the war has accelerated certain 
tendencies already present before the war: 

a. Increased emphasis on unity and cooperation. 

b. A tendency to centralize responsibility. 

c. An increased emphasis on native leadership. 

d. Growth in responsibility and self-conscious- 
ness in the native Church. 

e. A more cordial attitude toward Christians as 
identified with national aspirations. 

f . A new emphasis on the relation of Christian- 
ity to the needs of the nation. 

3. The work of the German missions has been brought 
to a standstill, presenting a problem for the future. 

4. Certain undetermined developments in China's in- 
ternational relationships may greatly aft'ect the mission- 
ary movement for good or ill : 

a. Japan's increased power. 

b. America's attitude. 

c. The policies of the Allies in economic matters. 



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Chapter IX. The War and the Missionary Outlook in 
Japan. 

1. The war has stimulated the progress of democratic 
ideals, due largely to America's part in the war. 

2. The participation of the United States in the war 
has resulted in a greatly enhanced respect for America, 
still coupled with doubts as to her genuine altruism. 

3. There is a growing spirit of internationalism, par- 
alleled, however, by an aroused nationalism. 

a. The militaristic party, which has been respon- 
sible for the imperialistic policies in Korea and 
China, seems gradually losing its hold, but is still 
powerful. 

b. Bushido, the boast of patriotic conservatives, 
has fallen in public esteem. 

4. There is a fresh realization of the need of some- 
thing to reenforce morality. 

5. The great industrial expansion during the war has 
seriously accentuated social problems, manifested in the 
rice riots and in the formation of the first labor unions. 

6. These changes make consequent demands in mis- 
sionary work. 

a. More exacting requirements in missionaries. 

b. Continued financial help. 

c. Better Christian educational institutions, in 
the light of rising governmental standards. 

d. Increased attention to social service. 

e. Increased need for indigenous Christian 
literature. 

Chapter X. The War and the Missionary Outlook in 
Korea. 

1. The emphasis on democracy and self-determina- 
tion has produced a strong demand for independence 
among Koreans and strongly repressive measures on the 
part of the Japanese Government. 

2. The reaction of the liberal party in Japan has led 
to the appointing of a new government in Korea, but 
with small possibility of eflfecting a reconciliation. 

3. Koreans and Japanese are so dissimilar in history, 
character, and interests as to find it exceedingly difficult 
to live together. 

4. The present confusion makes the missionary task 
more difficult and the immediate outlook unfavorable. 



312 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

a. The thought of independence so occupies the 
Korean's mind that reHgion is crowded out, though 
some turn to God as a refuge in hardship. 

b. There is a more materiaHstic tendency. 

c. The Japanese Government is suspicious of 
Christianity as conducive to the spirit of revolt. 

d. The Korean has less reliance on the West- 
erner than formerly. 

e. The spirit of reaction against the old ways 
results in impatience with Christian ethics. 

Chapter XI, The War and the Missionary Outlook in 
Africa. 

1. The participation of 1,000,000 Africans in the war 
and the severe campaigns in Africa have resulted in 

a. Economic distress and industrial unrest. 

b. Increased dependence on whites in primitive 
areas, but in more settled areas racial bitterness. 

2. Intellectually and spiritually there is great confu- 
sion, parallel with confused social conditions. 

3. The political effects may prove to be far-reaching. 

a. There will probably be better government 
under British control, perhaps also under French, 
than under German. 

b. The mandatory system may result in re- 
straints on the exploitation of the native, if Chris- 
tian sentiment is brought strongly to bear. 

c. There is a growing demand for democratic 
government. 

d. There is a crying need for a right settlement 
of the land problem to secure native tenure. 

4. The new situation may affect missionary oppor- 
tunity because of 

a. The questioning attitude of the native mind. 

b. The stimulation of liberal government. 

c. Possible removal of restrictions on Protestant 
work in certain large areas. 

5. In missionary method the new situation emphasizes 

a. The need of a social message and program. 

b. Giving responsibility to the native Church. 

c. The need of industrial training. 

d. The necessity for cooperation. 

e. The increasing part America must play. 

f. Need for provision of opportunity for mis- 
sions by Germans and by American Negroes. 



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Chapter XII. The War and the Missionary Outlook in 
Mohammedan Lands. 

A. The New Situation between Islam and Chris- 
tianity. 

1. The war has had tremendous bearing on the politi- 
cal status of Islam : 

a. The failure of the Jihad and of the Pan- 
Islamic movement shows the impossibility of the 
old Islam as a unified system of Church-State. 

b. If the present development of nationalism 
should be carried through logically, the unity of 
the Moslem world would vanish. 

c. With the breakdown of the Ottoman Empire 
the status of the Caliph will be changed. 

2. The bearing of the war on Islam as a religion is 
uncertain : 

a. The split both within Christendom and within 
Islam will probably tend to break down the old 
absolute division. 

b. The political debacle of Islam may result in 
trying it out as a spiritual religion and comparing it 
with Christianity. 

3. Certain problems for the missionary have come 
into sharper focus : 

a. Can we convince Moslems that Christianity 
is a real religion — i.e., mystical? 

b. Can our medical and educational missions be 
real centers of spiritual life ? 

c. Can we convince Moslems that their demo- 
cratic unity will not suffer under Christianity and 
that they need not be estranged from their past ? 

d. Can we convince them, in the midst of a 
rising materialism, that any religion is worth while? 

B. The Effect of the War on Certain Mohammedan 
Lands. 

1. Egypt: The sympathies of Moslems in Egypt were 
anti-Ally. There was widespread political unrest, not 
allayed by the collapse of Turkey. 

2. Arabia: The loyalty of the Arabs to the Allies and 
the setting up of the independent Moslem state of Hejaz 
were due more to diplomacy than to hostility to Turkey. 
There is disappointment at the collapse of Turkey. The 
expulsion of the Turk from Arabia has opened up to 
missionary work certain areas hitherto closed. 



314 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

3. Lidia: IMoslem soldiers fought with the Allies. 
There is. however, a disheartening sense of the decline 
of the prestige of Islam and a desire that Great Britain 
save the Turkish power. Many Moslems are bewildered 
and open to tactful approach. 

-4. Malaysia: In the British area, ^^loslems were loyal 
beyond question, and the collapse of Turkey has lessened 
confidence in political Islam. In the Dutch area, where 
the Pan-Islamic movement was stronger, it now seems 
weak, and the missionary opportunity is enhanced. 

5. China: China was too far distant to be seriously 
affected by Pan-Islamic propaganda. There is a revival 
of interest in missions to jMoslems which is hopeful. 

6. Central aiid SoutJi Africa: The call to a Holy War 
was a total failure. In Central Africa the IMoslem sol- 
diers carried on effective proseh-ting work in the army. 
In South Africa Islam is weaker, but is aggressive. 

Chapter XIII. The War and the Missionary Outlook in 
Latin America. 

1. Great economic changes have been effected: 

a. A turning to the United States for financial 
help. 

b. New eff'orts for economic freedom through 
increased production at home. 

c. Development of the labor movement and re- 
sulting industrial problems. 

d. New attention to Latin America given by 
other countries because of her enormous resources. 

2. The outstanding political change occasioned by 
hostility to Germany was a new attitude of friendliness 
toward the United States. 

3. Significant spiritual changes have resulted: 

a. An increased open-mindedness. 

b. The facing of problems of moral decision due 
to the challenge of war. 

c. New interest in philanthropic and social work. 

d. A new reHgious note, manifested in a marked 
interest in Protestant teachings, a lessening of con- 
fidence in the Catholic Church, and a readiness of 
government authorities to cooperate with missions 
in establishing schools. 

4. Serious dangers may arise in the new situation : 

a. Evils of commercial rivalry. 



APPENDIX 315 

b. The domination of American financial inter- 
ests, illustrated by the present propaganda for inter- 
vention in Mexico. 

c. Suspicion of military power of the United 
States and its imperialistic program in the Carib- 
bean. 

d. Emphasis on militarism and materialism. 

e. An unrestrained development of radicalism. 
5. An enlarged social program for the missionary 

enterprise is demanded. 



Part III 

Missionary Principles and Policies in the Light 
OF THE War. 

Chapter XIV. The Effect of War on Missionary Spirit 
and Activity. 

1. The period following the war witnesses a quicken- 
ing of missionary activity and suggests an historical in- 
quiry into the effect of war in general on missionary spirit 
and activity. Such an inquiry reveals that, although war 
is a spiritual disaster, there are certain indirect compensa- 
tions that may be a stimulus to foreign missions. 

2. Although war leads to a temporary disruption of 
unity, the final result is often a larger and higher unity. 

a. The war at Jerusalem in 70 A. D. and the 
scattering of the Christians saved the missionary 
character of Christianity. 

b. The break-up of the Roman Empire by bar- 
barian invasions issued in at least the nominal Chris- 
tianizing of Europe. 

c. Military expansion often indirectly serves the 
cause of missions by increasing facilities for con- 
tact with non-Christian peoples. 

3. The stirring of the spirit of sacrifice and the en- 
larging of vision as a result of war have often stimulated 
the missionary spirit. 

a. The period following the French and the 
American Revolutions saw the founding of the early 
British and American missionary societies. 

b. The period of the American Civil War saw 
the founding of the women's missionary societies. 



316 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

4. The expansion of Christianity into territories 
opened up by wars has led to its enrichment. 

5. The World War may prove to be the greatest illus- 
tration yet seen of each of these three effects observed 
in other wars. 

Chapter XV. Lessons from the War as to Propaganda 
for Missions. 

1. The acceptance and justification of the idea of 
propaganda during the war ought to remove all objec- 
tions to the propagandist character of missions. 

2. From the war propaganda missions may learn : 

a. That the pubHc is prepared for propaganda. 

b. That ideas are contagious when effectively set 
forth. 

c. That facts plus personality are most effective 
as revealed in the "four-minute men." 

d. That the primary appeal should be for life. 

e. That careful surveys of forces needed are 
essential to securing the forces. 

f. That organization and expenditure for popu- 
lar education are justified. 

g. That men are appealed to by big tasks and 
that unity is essential to success. 

3. But there were also tendencies in war-time propa- 
ganda that we need to avoid : 

a. Trying to accomplish effective results with- 
out a long-continued educational process. 

b. Appealing to unworthy motives or exaggerat- 
ing the facts. 

c. Trying to build spiritual movements too much 
on abnormal pressure or high tension methods. 

4. In the appeal of the war propaganda we find cer- 
tain motives to which missions may wisely appeal : 

a. Desire for unselfish world-wide service. 

b. Sympathy for the suffering and unfortunate. 

c. The heroic spirit. 

Chapter XVI. New Demands Regarding the Character 
and Training, of Missionaries. 

1. The enlarging responsibilities demand not only 
more men but unusual personality and training. 

2. Certain elements of personality ought now to be 



APPENDIX 317 

emphasized in addition to all the excellent qualities called 
for in the past. 

a. An international mind. 

b. A sense of brotherhood, free from any feel- 
ing of superiority. 

c. A sociaHzed outlook, consonant with the en- 
larged social task. 

d. A disposition toward cooperation. 

e. A clearly Christocentric emphasis. 

f. An appreciation of the vital truths in non- 
Christian thought. 

3. Certain courses of training need now to be empha- 
sized, in addition to former standard requirements : 

a. The history of non-Christian areas and of 
our relations with them. 

b. The study of the statesmanship of missions. 

c. The acquisition of sound experience in forms 
of social and community service. 

d. The study of the religions of the world and 
of Christianity in a scientific comparison. 

e. A more vital study of the various ways in 
which rehgion may take hold of life. 

Chapter XVII. Reconsideration of Missionary Methods 
in the Light of the New Situation. 

1. In interpreting the message : We have a fuller ap- 
preciation of the need for a message distinctly spiritual 
and so unified as to apply to all of life. 

2. In the delivery of the message : 

a. In evangelism: Our new realization of the 
power of the spoken word should lead to greater 
emphasis on oral preaching. 

b. In education : Thorough reconsideration is 
necessary, with a view to establishing higher stan- 
dards, securing more adequate material equipment, 
providing industrial and professional training, and 
safeguarding the religious interests of mission 
schools. 

c. In medical work: The experience of the 
medical corps of the army in sanitation and preven- 
tive work suggests a similar program for missions. 

d. In social service : The experience of welfare 
agencies in the army suggests the need for a greater 
variety of Christian social service. 



318 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

3. In the indigenous Church : Greater attention to its 
development is called for by the present emphasis on 
self-determination. 

4. In administration : 

a. Thorough surveys are found a prerequisite. 

b. Specific men must be chosen for specific 
needs. 

c. The need for fuller cooperation is one of the 
clearest lessons from the war and needs to be 
applied among the missions on the field, between 
missions and the indigenous Church, and between 
field and home base. 

d. In finances it is important that estimates be 
based not on past records but on needs, that ex- 
penditures be directed to substantial advance, that 
accounting be made with scrupulous care. 

e. Furloughs need to be used more efficiently. 

5. A general speeding-up is demanded, consonant 
with the new opportunity. 

Chapter XVIII. The War and the Literary Aspects of 
Missions. 

1. The printed word was a major factor in war 
propaganda, and its significance for Christian propa- 
ganda is greater than usually realized, for 

a. It is the method which reaches the maximum 
numbers. 

b. Through the printed word repeated impres- 
sion is possible. 

c. It makes possible a more exact like-minded- 
ness than oral tradition can secure. 

2. A wider range and a more effective kind of mis- 
sionary literature are demanded. 

3. Authors with some technical training are more 
largely needed, especially native authors. 

4. The printing press is of key importance in mission 
stations, and a traveling printing expert is needed. 

5. In distribution : 

a. The war propaganda has revealed the value 
of free distribution, provided the material is really 
effective. 

b. The best way of increasing sales is to produce 
literature of intrinsic value. 



APPENDIX 319 

c. The factor of loan libraries, both abroad and 
at home, deserves vastly greater attention. 

d. There may be possibilities in Christian poster 
propaganda. 

6. Getting literature read is a problem unsolved. 

7. There is a great possibility and necessity of co- 
operation, both in production and distribution. 

Chapter XIX. Missions and American Business and 
Professional Men Abroad. 

1. The effect for good or ill of Western business and 
professional men in non-Christian lands is increasingly 
important because of post-war expansion of trade. 

2. There is needed on the missionary's part a larger 
appreciation of the importance of the business man's 
contribution to the people's life and on the business man's 
part an intelligent appreciation of missions. 

3. There are certain things that can be done on the 
field to secure better understanding and cooperation : 

a. The union church and the private school are 
important agencies for bringing missionaries and 
other foreign groups together. 

b. Larger salaries to missionaries would make 
larger social contact possible. 

c. The business contacts of missions should con- 
form to the highest standards. 

4. Other efforts need to be made here at home : 

a. More effective missionary education and 
propaganda, so that missions will be elevated to a 
new dignity in the estimation of the general public. 

b. Contacts between missionary bodies and 
foreign trade agencies. 

c. Special efforts to induce church members en- 
gaged in foreign trade to select foreign representa- 
tives with attention to moral and religious life. 

Chapter XX. The Bearing of Economics and Business 
on Foreign Missions. 

1. Economics and business, formerly placing an in- 
dividualistic competitive principle at their center, had 
little regard for foreign missions, which rests on an ideal 
of human solidarity and social responsibility. 

2. The science of economics is now passing beyond 
the old individualism and is coming to regard "social 



320 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

utility" as the fundamental standard, as expressed, for 
example, in 

a. The modern justification of private property. 

b. The principle underlying modern taxation. 

c. The theory of the control of corporations. 

d. The basis of national prohibition. 

3. Economics, therefore, is coming to have Christian 
foundations. 

4. There are also hopeful signs that the success of 
business is gradually coming to be judged not on the 
basis of private profit but of public service. 

5. So long as Western business proceeds on a basis 
of selfishness, it denies the Christian Gospel that the 
missionary from the West is proclaiming. 

6. When economics and business both come to rest on 
Christian principles they will be great missionary 
agencies. 

Chapter XXL Missionary Agencies in Relation to Stu- 
dents from Other Lands. 

1. The war has resulted in a great increase of interest 
in American educational institutions, so that more foreign 
students than ever are coming to the United States. 

2. Because of who they are and of who they are to 
be they present a great missionary responsibility. 

a. A great percentage are here because of mis- 
sionary encouragement, but only about twenty-five 
per cent are Christians. 

b. They are sensitive, impressionable, responsive 
to friendly courtesy and Christian appeals. 

c. Those who have returned without becoming 
Christians are a hindrance to missionary work, but 
others have made tremendous contributions. 

3. The visits of increasing numbers of Oriental 
travelers in this country afiford similar opportunities. 

4. There are many ways in which Christians and 
churches can help these foreign students. 

a. Invite them to church services, social gather- 
ings, and especially to their homes. 

b. Invite them to speak to churches, young peo- 
ple's meetings, etc. 

c. Render helpful ministries and give personal 
encouragement. 



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5. Mission board secretaries and returned mission- 
aries may well consult them on matters of policy. 

Chapter XXII. The Foreign Policies of the United 
States and the Success of Foreign Missions. 

1. With the new international relationships of the 
United States, the bearing of our foreign poHcies on the 
success of foreign missions becomes even greater. 

2. Certain Christian attitudes on the part of the 
United States toward other lands in the last century 
have had an incalculably beneficial effect on Christian 
missions, notably in China and Japan. 

3. Certain unchristian policies of the United States 
have had and are now having most hurtful effects on 
missions in Africa, Japan, China, and Latin America. 

4. The Churches must therefore bend every energy 
to Christianizing our national attitudes and policies. 

a. Mission study textbooks and other agencies 
of Christian education are needed for informing the 
Christian public concerning our international re- 
sponsibilities. 

b. Missionary leaders have a particular respon- 
sibility for leading the way in creating a more 
Christian international program. 

c. The Foreign Missions Conference should ap- 
point a committee on international friendship, to 
cooperate with the World Alliance for International 
Friendship, in order to arouse the Churches to a 
realization of the situation and to action. 

Chapter XXIII. The Relation of Foreign Missions to 
International Politics. 

1. The war emphasized, as never before, the relation- 
ship of missions to the political affairs of governments. 

2. The question whether missionary enterprise and 
its agents could be regarded as supra-national was defi- 
nitely raised, and the recognition of the trust character 
of enemy missionary property was secured although a 
similar status for the missionary could not be secured. 

3. The proposed League of Nations should have far- 
reaching significance for the missionary enterprise, but 
its usefulness depends largely on its personnel. 

4. The proposed plan of mandatories would be in 
the direction of enthroning the missionary spirit in gov- 



332 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

ernment, but unless carefully safeguarded may become 
only a cloak for exploitation. 

5. The question of missionary liberty is raised in a 
sharper form by the new contacts with governments. 

a. Religious liberty is essential to missionary 
liberty but missionary liberty goes further, involv- 
ing the right of propaganda. 

b. The mandatory system of government, being 
based on an altruistic ideal, ought to tend in the 
direction of safeguarding missionary rights. 

c. When a missionary's legal rights fall below 
his moral rights, he should conform to existing laws 
while endeavoring to modify them. 

d. In matters pertaining to foreign governments, 
corporate action by a mission rather than action by 
individuals should be taken. 

6. There will now be greater need for a central world 
agency of Christian missions, interdenominational and in- 
ternational in character. 



APPENDIX II 
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Following is a brief bibliography of a few of the more 
important publications that have appeared during the 
war bearing on subjects discussed in this volume. 

I 

The Enhanced Significance and Urgency of 
Foreign Missions in the Light of the War 

Books 

Brown, W. A. Is Christianity practicable? New York, Scrib- 

ner, 1916. pp. 246. $1.50. 
Dennett, Tyler. The democratic movement in Asia. New 

York, Association Press, 1918. pp. 252. $1.50. 
HiRTZEL, Sir Arthur. The church, the empire, and the world. 

New York, Macmillan, 1919. pp. 128. $1.50. 
Lenwood, Frank. Social problems and the East. London, 

Church Missionary Society, 1919. pp. 208. 1/6. 
Means, P. A. Racial factors in democracy. Boston, Marshall 

Jones, 1919. pp. 278. $2.50. 
Merrill, W. P. Christian internationalism. New York, Mac- 
millan, 1919. pp. 193. $1.50. 
Oldham, J. H. The world and the gospel. London, United 

Council for Missionary Education, 1916. pp. 224. 2/ — . 
Patton, C. H. World facts and America's responsibility. New 

York, Association Press, 1919. pp. 236. $1.00. 
Speer, R. E. The gospel and the new world. New York, 

Revell, 1919. $2.00. 
Taylor, S. E., and Luccock, H. E. The Christian crusade for 

world democracy. New York, Methodist Book Concern, 

1918. pp. 204. 75 cents. 

Periodical Articles 
Basis and ideals of the new internationalism. (Report of the 
Foreign Missions Conference, 1919. pp. 188-212.) 



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Bates, C. J. L. The missionary as an interpreter between the 
Occident and the Orient. {Japan Evangelist, August- 
September, 1919. pp. 283-291.) 

Bowles, G. Internationalism in missionary work in the Orient. 
{Japan Evangelist, August-September, 1919. pp. 292-298.) 

Contribution of foreign missions to the new internationalism. 
(Report of the Foreign Missions Conference of North 
America, 1919. pp. 213-235.) 

Fleming, D. J. Christianizing a world. {Chinese Recorder, 
June, 1919. pp. 384-392.) 

Forrester, J. C. The progress of missions. {The East and the 
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Hutchinson, Paul. The missionary factor in the diplomatic 
problem of China. {Chinese Recorder, June, 1918. pp. 
381-388.) 

Shillito, E. The appeal of the missionary enterprise to the 
man of 1919. {International Review of Missions, January, 
1919. pp. 18-26.) 

Speer, Robert E. Is a restatement of the Christian message to 
the non-Christian peoples and a reinterpretation of the 
missionary objective for the Church at home necessary? 
(Report of the Foreign Missions Conference of North 
America, 1919. pp. 138-151.) 

Wheeler, W. R. China, world democracy, and missions. {Mis- 
sionary Review of the World, February, 1919. pp. 91-96.) 

Yui, D. Z. T. The coming Chinese Christian leadership. 
{Chinese Recorder, January, 1919. pp. 24-34.) 

Zwemer, S. M. God, Moslem evangehzation, and the new in- 
ternationalism. (Report of the Foreign Missions Con- 
ference of North America, 1919. pp. 236-246.) 

II 

The Effect of the War on the Religious Outlook 

IN Various Lands 
Books 
AcKERMAN, C. H. Mexico's dilemma. New York, Doran, 

1918. pp. 281. $1.50. 
Archer, W. India and the future. New York, Knopf, 1918. 

pp. 326. $3.00. 
Barton, J. L. The Christian approach to Islam. Boston, Pil- 
grim Press, 1918. pp. 316. $2.00. 
Benson, E. F. Crescent and iron cross. New York, Doran, 
1918. pp. 240. $1.25. 



APPENDIX 325 

Brown, A. J. The mastery of the Far East; the story of 
Korea's transformation and Japan's rise to supremacy in 
the Orient. New York, Scribner, 1919. pp. 671. $6.00. 

Burton, M. E. Women workers of the Orient. West Med- 
ford, Mass. Central Committee on the United Study of 
Foreign Missions, 1918. pp. 240. 50 cents. 

China Mission Year Book, 1915-1918. Shanghai, China, 
Kwang Hsiieh PubHshing House. $3.00. 

China Year Book. New York, E. P. Button & Co., 1919-1920. 
$8.00. 

Christian movement in Japanese Empire. Japan Conference 
of Federated Missions Year Book, 1910-11, 75 cents; 
1912, $1.00; 1913-15, $125; 1916, $1.50. 

Christian occupation of Africa. New York, Foreign Missions 
Conference of North America, 1917. pp. 185. 20 cents. 

Curtis, L. Letters to the people of India on responsible 
government. London, Macmillan, 1918. pp. 211. Z/^. 

EL\ST India Industrial Commission. Report of the Indian In- 
dustrial Commission, 1916-18. London, H. M. Stationery 
Office, 1919. pp. 483. 4/6. 

Farquhar, J, N. Modern religious movements in India. New 
York, Macmillan, 1915. pp. 471. $2.50. 

Fisher, F, B., and Williams, G. M. India's silent revolution. 
New York, Macmillan, 1919. pp. 192. $1.50. 

Gamewell, M. N. New life currents in China. New York, 
Missionary Education Movement, 1919. pp. 227. 75 cents. 

Gibbons, H. A. New map of Africa. New York, Centurj-- 
Company, 1916. pp. 503. $2.00. 

Gibbons, H. A. New map of Asia. New York, Century Com- 
pany, 1919. pp. 571. $2.00. 

Greene, J. K. Leavening the Levant. Boston, Pilgrim Press, 
1916. pp.353. $1.50. 

GuLicK, S. L. Working women of Japan, New York, Mis- 
sionary Education Movement, 1915. pp. 162. 50 cents. 

Holland, W. E. S. The goal of India. London, Council for 
Missionary Education, 1917. pp. 256. 2/. 

Kawakami, K. K. Japan in world politics. New York, Mac- 
millan, 1917. pp. 230. $1.50. 

Kirkpatrick, F. S. South America and the war. New York, 
Putnam, 1919. pp. 79. $1.50. 

Leeder, S. H. Modern sons of the Pharaohs. London, Hod- 
der and Stoughton, 1918. pp. 371. 16/. 

Lenwood, Frank. Pastels from the Pacific. New York, Ox- 
ford University Press, 1918. pp. 224. $3.00. 



326 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

Macdonald, a. J. Trade, politics and Christianity in Africa 

and the East. New York, Longmans, 1916. pp. 295. $2.00. 
Mackenzie, De Witt. The awakening of India. London, Hod- 

der, 1918. pp. 159. 2/6. 
Mathews, B. The riddle of Nearer Asia. New York, Doran, 

1919. pp. 216. $1.25. 
Montagu-Chelmsford report on Indian constitutional reforms. 

London, H. M. Stationery Office, 1918. pp. 1300. 1/6. 
Moore, E. C. World crisis and missionary work. Boston, 

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 

1916. pp. 124. (Pamphlet.) 

Mukerjee, R. Foundations of Indian economics. New York, 
Longmans, 1916. pp. 515. 9/. 

Overlach, T. W. Foreign financial control in China. New 
York, Macmillan, 1919. pp. 295. $2.00. 

Paton, William. Social ideals in India. London, London Mis- 
sionary Society, 1919. pp. 104. 

PooLEY, A. M. Japan at the cross-roads. New York, Dodd, 

1917. pp. 362. $3.50. 

Pratt, James B. India and its faiths. New York, Revell, 

1915. pp. 482. $4.00. 
Rao, K. V. Future government of India. London, Macmillan, 

1918. pp. 442. 12s. 

Report of the Rowlatt Committee in India. 1918. 

Trowbridge, E. D. Mexico today and tomorrow. New York, 
Macmillan, 1919. pp. 282. $2.00. 

Wheeler, W. R. China and the World War. New York, Mac- 
millan, 1919. pp. 263. $1.75. 

Young, Miriam. Among the women of the Punjab. London, 
Carey, 1916. pp. 139. 1/6. 

Zwemer, S. M. The disintegration of Islam. New York, 
Revell, 1916. pp. 231. $1.25. 

Periodical Articles 

Archer, A. L, Social service. (Japan Evangelist, March, 

1919. pp. 90-94.) 

Arnold, J. A. China's economic problems and Christian mis- 
sionary effort. (Chinese Recorder, August, 1919. pp. 515- 
524.) 

Articles in The Christian Express. Lovedale, So. Africa. 

Articles in The Islamic Review. London, Lord Headlam, 
editor. 

Articles in The Review of Religions. Qadian, India, The 
Qadiani Movement in Indian Muhammadanism. 



APPENDIX 327 

Brown, A. J. A tenant in Shantung. (Asia, September, 1919. 
pp. 915-920.) 

Childs, J. L. Results of the war upon missionary work in 
China. (Millard's Review, December 14, 1918. p. 46.) 

Chirol, V. Islam and the war. (Quarterly Review, April, 
1918. pp. 489-515.) 

Eddy, S. Where China stands today. (International Review 
of Missions, 1918. pp. 433-444.) 

The Effect of the war in India. (Missionary Review of the 
World, 1918. pp. 884-886.) 

Frease, E. F. North Africa missions in war time. (Moslem 
World, 1918. pp. 263-268.) 

Harris, J. H. African reconstruction after the war. (Mis- 
sionary Review of the World, June, 1919. pp. 439-446.) 

Jones, F. Among the Chinese labour groups in France. ( The 
East and the West, April, 1919. pp. 134-137.) 

Kagawa, Toyohiko. The present situation, (Japan Evangel- 
ist, August- September, 1919. pp. 328-332.) 

Keable, R. African priests in France. (The East and the 
West, 1918. pp. 53-59.) 

Macdonald, D. B. The situation in the Mohammedan world. 
(The Review, August 30, 1919. pp. 339-341.) 

Merrins, E. M. War's effect on missions in China. (Church- 
man, July, 1919.) 

Missions and the war. (Indian Standard, August, 1918. p. 
243.) 

The Present crisis in India. (Harvest Field, July, 1918. pp. 
241-243.) 

RiGGS, C. T. The waning crescent in Turkey. (Moslem 
World, January, 1919. pp. 68-76.) 

Studies in Mission Psychology. (Millard's Review, December 
14, 1918, pp. 51-52.) 

A Survey of the effect of the war upon missions. (Interna- 
tional Review of Missions, October, 1919. pp. 433-490. To 
be continued.) 

Taylor, J. D. Some effects of the war on Africa. (Mission- 
ary Review of the World, June, 1919. pp. 439-446.) 

Watson, C. R. Gains, losses, and handicaps of foreign mis- 
sions occasioned by the war. (Report of the Foreign 
Missions Conference of North America, 1919. pp. 116- 
127.) 

Weston, Frank. The black slaves of Prussia. Universities 
Mission to Central Africa, pp. 16. 

Zwemer, S. M. The present religious condition of Egypt. 
(Biblical Review, July, 1919.) 



328 THE MISSIONARY OUTLOOK 

III 

Missionary Principles and Policies in the Light 
OF the War 
Books 

Brown, A. J. Rising churches in non-Christian lands. New 
York, Missionary Education Movement, 1915. pp. 236. 60 
cents. 

Brown, W. A. Modern missions in the Far East. New York, 
Union Theological Seminary, 1917 (pamphlet). 

Chung, Henry. The Oriental policy of the United States. New 
York, Revell, 1919. pp. 306. $2.00. 

Clayton, A. C. Christian literature in India. Madras, Chris- 
tian Literature Society for India, 1918. pp. 116. 

Fleming, D. J. Devolution in mission administration. New 
York, Revell [1916]. pp. 310. $1.50. 

GuLiCK, S. L. American democracy and Asiatic citizenship. 
New York, Scribner, 1918. pp. 257. $1.75. 

LoRAM, C. T. The education of the South African native. 
New York, Longmans, 1917. pp. 340. $2.00. 

McCoNAUGHY, David. Money, the acid test. New York, Mis- 
sionary Education Movement, 1918. pp. 193. 60 cents. 

RiTSON, J. H. Christian literature in the mission field. Edin- 
burgh, Continuation Committee, 1915. pp. 152. 1/. 

Periodical Articles 

The Advocacy of foreign missions at the home base. (Inter- 
national Review of Missions, 1918. pp. 98-106; 219-227; 
501-509.) 

America's influence on foreign students. (Missionary Review 
of the World, 1918. pp. 562-563.) 

Brown, W. A. Developing the missionary consciousness in the 
modern man. (International Review of Missions, Oct., 
1917. pp. 497-510.) 

Cheng, C. Y. The Chinese Christian Church and national 
movements. (Chinese Recorder, July, 1919. pp. 456-460.) 

Clayton, J. A. Survey of Qiristian literature in China. (In- 
ternational Review of Missions, 1918. pp, 445-455.) 

Davis, J. M. The relation of social welfare work to the Chris- 
tian movement in Japan. (lapan Evangelist, January, 1919. 
pp. 4-8; February, 1919. pp. 41-45.) 

DiFFENDORFER, R. E. Developing a dominantly missionary 
church. (International Review of Missions, January, 1919. 
pp. 95-103.) 



APPENDIX 329 

DovEY^ J. W. A comparison between the distribution of Chris- 
tian literature in China and Japan. (Chinese Recorder, 
March, 1919. pp. 158-166.) 

DovEY, J. W. A policy for the distribution of Chinese Chris- 
tian literature. (Chinese Recorder, July, 1919. pp. 473- 
479.) 

French^ A. J. P. Wanted — a more vigorous policy. (Moslem 
World, July, 1919. pp. 247-251.) 

GuLiCK^ S. L. The responsibility of Christian leaders for in- 
ternational relations. (Missionary Review of the World, 

1918. pp. 282-288.) 

KuLP, D. H., II. A sociological apologetic for Christian propa- 
ganda in China. (Chinese Recorder, February, 1919. pp. 
88-94.) 

Literature needs of the Christian Church in China. (Chinese 
Recorder, June, 1919. pp. 380-383.) 

Mathews, B. J. Some unoccupied fields at the home base. 
(International Review of Missions, January, 1919. pp. 
104-117.) 

Olds, C. B. The community welfare note in missionary serv- 
ice. (Japan Evangelist, March, 1919. pp. 94-97.) 

RiTSON, J. H. The British Government and missions of alien 
nationality. (International Review of Missions, January, 

1919. pp. 18-26.) 

SoDERBLOM, N. Christian missions and national politics, (/w- 
ternational Review of Missions, October, 1919. pp. 491- 
499.) 

Speers, J. M, The war's lessons in giving. (Missionary Re- 
view of the World, 1918. pp. 202-205.) 

Ten Points on mission policy. (Japan Evangelist, February, 
1919. pp. 59-63.) 



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